WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -ambivalence: the ambiguous way in which colonizer and colonized regard one another. The colonizer often regards the colonized as both inferior yet exotically other, while the colonized regards the colonizer as both enviable yet corrupt. In a context of hybridity, this often produces a mixed sense of blessing and curse.

Detailed explanation-2: -Abstract-Based on Homi K. Bhabha’s postcolonial theory, the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized is the mutual relationship in which the identities of the colonizer and the colonized (the Other) are mutually constructed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ambivalence is defined as the coexistence of opposed emotional attitudes toward a significant figure in the social environment. A new technique for its assessment is described; application in a series of studies on college students, hospitalized schizophrenics, and school children reviewed.

Detailed explanation-4: -” For Bhabha this ambivalence of colonial relations is something that disturbs the self-identity of the colonizer”. According to Bhabha the problem for colonial discourse is that it wants to create subjects who make, habits and values – that is, ‘mimic’ the colonizer.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ambivalence also characterizes the way in which colonial discourse relates to the colonized subject, for it may be both exploitative and nurturing, or represent itself as nurturing, at the same time.