What is Postcolonial Theory? - PHILO-notes

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Broadly construed, postcolonial theory is a theoretical approach in literary studies which attempts to critically analyze the global effects of European colonialism. It has developed out of the earlier theories of Commonwealth Literature and Third World studies. And as is well known, this field of study breaks with the ideology associated with Commonwealth Literature’s unthinking claim that the cultural role of the anglophone writers around the world is to enrich English literature.

Most postcolonial theorists considered Edward Said’s seminal work titled Orientalism as one of the founding texts of postcolonial theory. In fact, much of the best works in this field of study has followed the original thesis put forward by Said on how colonial conquests resulted in an attempt to know and administer colonial subjects which inaugurated the “othering” of the other, which generates the pervasive images of effeminate Indians, savage Africans, and inscrutably sinister Orientals that are so common in the literature of Empire.

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