What are Worlding and Worldliness?| Postcolonial concepts| Postcolonialism| Spivak|Edward Said

What is Worlding and Worldliness?| Postcolonial Theory| Postcolonialism| Gayatri Spivak| Edward Said
In this video I have two videos (worlding and worldliness) that were previously published in my Postcolonial Concepts Playlist. I think if you view the two videos side by side, it would be better for clear understanding of the differences between the two terms, one theorized by Edward Said (Wordliness) and the other by Gayatri Spivak (Worlding).
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Worlding
The term “worlding” was first introduced, in Postcolonial Studies, by Gayatri Spivak in her essay “The Rani of Simur: An Essay in Reading the Archive,” where she explains how the colonized space is transformed as “the colonized space” (worlding) for the natives by their colonial masters through the acts such as cartography, writing, or simply traveling over the colonized land.
In the essay Spivak discusses three different kinds of British archives that cause the “worlding” of the native world for the natives of a colonized space. The most significant example, in our context, is that of the lone British officer traveling with his attendant and “recording” and mapping his experiences as he travels. In Spivak’s view, this power to travel and record is what forces the accompanying native to cathect the colonized space according to the representation of the master. In other words, an act of cathectation involves investing one’s own desires and imagination in the actions or acts of those one considers one’s superior. In this case, the lone British officer and his recording and mapping of the native Indian land makes the native servant see and experience his own native land as imagined, recorded, and controlled by his master. In this way, then, in Spivak’s words “He (the British officer) is engaged in consolidating the self of Europe by obliging the native to cathect the space of the Other on his home ground.” [meaning, as pointed out above, that the native starts seeing his own home territory as belonging to his master]
Spivak Essay: https://postcolonial.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/spivak_readingarchive.pdf
On Worldliness:
Worldliness is theorized by Edward said and is the main theme of his work The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983), which was published after Orientalism. In the introductory parts of the book Said explains what he calls Secular Criticism and by that what he means is that all of us exist in a secular history and secular criticism would be a kind of criticism which is aware of its own political leanings and is not really over determined by them. In order to further clarify this point, Said discusses the two aspects of our loyalties as individuals and critics in the world and that filiative and affiliative aspects of our identities. The filiative aspects of what we are, including the literary critics, are the family bonds and the very givens of life and family that determine our politics or our
Worldviews.

(Source: https://postcolonial.net/glossary/worldliness/)

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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Видео What are Worlding and Worldliness?| Postcolonial concepts| Postcolonialism| Spivak|Edward Said канала Dr. Masood Raja