ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Exotic Other: The view that those who are different from oneself possess an inherent dignity and beauty, perhaps because of their more undeveloped, natural state of being.

Detailed explanation-2: -Postcolonial theory is a literary theory or critical approach that deals with literature produced in countries that were once, or are now, colonies of other countries. It may also deal with literature written in or by citizens of colonizing countries that takes colonies or their peoples as its subject matter.

Detailed explanation-3: -post-colonialism: Broadly a study of the effects of colonialism on cultures and societies. It is concerned with both how European nations conquered and controlled “Third World” cultures and how these groups have since responded to and resisted those encroachments.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ambivalence. The idea of ambivalence sees culture as consisting of opposing perceptions and dimensions. Bhabha claims that this ambivalence-this duality that presents a split in the identity of the colonized other-allows for beings who are a hybrid of their own cultural identity and the colonizer’s cultural identity.