LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
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To draw attention to the positive effects of colonization on literature
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To explain why there are few examples of successful non-Western literature
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To show the ways in which most Western literature is superior
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Detailed explanation-1: -To enable to form judgments about literature.
Detailed explanation-2: -With the objective of locating the modes of representation where Europeans constructed natives in politically prejudiced ways, post colonial criticism intends to unveil such literary figures, themes and representatives that have enforced imperial ideology, colonial domination and continuing Western hegemony.
Detailed explanation-3: -Postcolonialism (or Postimperialism) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.
Detailed explanation-4: -Postcolonial literature often addresses the problems and consequences of the decolonization of a country, especially questions relating to the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated people, and themes such as racialism and colonialism.
Detailed explanation-5: -Postcolonialism signals a possible future of overcoming colonialism, yet new forms of domination or subordination can come in the wake of such changes, including new forms of global empire. Postcolonialism should not be confused with the claim that the world we live in now is actually devoid of colonialism.