What are Appropriation and Abrogation?| Postcolonial Theory| Postcolonial Concepts| Postcolonialism

What is Appropriation and Abrogation?| Postcolonial Theory| Postcolonial Concepts| Postcolonialism
In this video i have combined two previously available videos (appropriation and abrogation) so that you can watch them in one and easily compare the subtle differences between the two etrms.

Appropriation generally refers to the strategies employed by postcolonial societies and its writers and scholars that enable them to use the philosophical, linguistic, and academic tools introduced by the colonizers to offer their own versions of truth or, in ideal conditions, to dismantle the colonizers’ claims to truth using the colonizers own language and vocabularies.

In the postcolonial African literary tradition, appropriation has been a highly contested technique: For writers like Chinua Achebe and others, using the colonizers language to tell African stories is seen as an enabling practice, but scholars like Chinweizu and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o believe that using native languages and cultural vocabularies is absolutely crucial to developing a native cultural sphere that is free of the ideological determinisms of the colonial system of education and colonial ideological imperatives.

Further Reading: (https://literariness.org/2017/09/28/appropriation-in-post-colonialism/)
Source: https://postcolonial.net/glossary/appropriation/

Chinweizu: https://youtu.be/e-EZL1scEno
Ngugi wa Thiong'O: https://youtu.be/_0e2xWCs8Qk

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Abrogation refers to the rejection by post-colonial writers of a normative concept of ‘correct’ or ‘standard’ English used by certain classes or groups, and of the corresponding concepts of inferior ‘dialects’ or ‘marginal variants’. The concept is usually employed in conjunction with the term appropriation, which describes the processes of English adaptation itself, and is an important component of the post-colonial assumption that all language use is a ‘variant’ of one kind or another (and is in that sense ‘marginal’ to some illusory standard). Thus abrogation is an important political stance, whether articulated or not, and even whether conscious or not, from which the actual appropriation of language can take place.

[Source: Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts]

African Author Mentioned in the video:
Amos Tutuola: "The Palm Wine Drinkard." https://amzn.to/2BXzROS

(The following page contains a write up of abrogation and also a link to the Key Concepts book on Amazon)

More details: https://postcolonial.net/glossary/abrogation/
What is Postcolonialism:
Since I claim to be a postcolonialism scholar, I think it is apt to include a brief description of my field of study. In my view, Postcolonialism ( also written as Post Colonialism or Post-Colonialism) is a dynamic field of literary study that focuses on the history of colonialism and native responses to the colonial policies and life after colonialism formally ends. The field of postcolonialism also offers insights into the literature and culture of the the former European colonies and their struggles after the end of colonialism.
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