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Jane Hiddleston
Jane Hiddleston
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University of Oxford
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Introduction

  1. What is the difference between colonialism and imperialism?

  2. What is the difference between postcolonialism and postcoloniality?

  3. In what ways was Marx ambivalent in his attitude to colonialism?

  4. How does Marx's theory of ideology inform more recent forms of post-colonial thought?

  5. How is Gramsci's notion of hegemony distinct from Marx's concept of ideology?

  6. Define the Levinasian concepts of Totality and Infinity.

  7. What aspects of Levinas's thought can be used to offer a critique of colonialism?

  8. How does Levinas conceive the relation between politics and ethics?

Fanon and Sartre: colonial Manichaeism and the call to arms

  1. How does Fanon configure the relation between black and white in Black Skin, White Masks?

  2. How does Fanon use and critique psychoanalytic models in his analysis of colonialism?

  3. Analyse Fanon's use of the term “negro”.

  4. In what sense is Fanon's thought ethical?

  5. What does it mean if the colonial structure is “Manichaean”?

  6. How does Fanon respond to the politics of nationalism?

  7. How does Sartre conceive the role of negritude?

  8. How does Sartre position the colonizer in relation to the colonized?

Decolonization, community, nationalism: Gandhi, Nandy and the Subaltern Studies Collective

  1. Why does Gandhi vilify modern civilization?

  2. How does Gandhi define Indian civilization?

  3. What do you understand by the term “satyagraha”?

  4. What does Gandhi mean by “Swaraj”?

  5. […]

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Understanding Postcolonialism , pp. 186 - 188
Publisher: Acumen Publishing
Print publication year: 2009

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