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\nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \n• Post-colonialism is an academic and critical discipline that studies the human consequences of colonial rule.  \n• It examines how colonial powers:  \n• Exercised political control over territories  \n• Imposed their cultural systems  \n• Economically exploited native populations and resources  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \nPost-colonialism is influenced by postmodern theoretical frameworks, especially:  \n• Power and Knowledge  \n• Colonizers constructed “truth” about colonized societies  \n• Knowledge production as a form of domination  \n• Representation  \n• Literature and discourse shaped colonial ideology  \n• Images and narratives reinforced power hierarchies  \n• Social & Political Power Structures  \n• Control over knowledge = control over society  \n• Marginalization of colonized voices  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \nPost-Colonialism as a Literary Theory  \nScope of Study  \n• Literature from former colonies:  \n• Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America, Australia  \n• Literature of decolonized nations  \n• Engaged in new relationships with former imperial powers  \n• Texts by:  \n• Colonizers  \n• Colonized writers  \n• Key Concerns  \n• Representation of colonized people as the “Other”  \n• Impact of colonial power on identity and culture  \n• Rewriting and resisting colonial narratives  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \nObjectives:  \n• Decenter Western canon  \n• Recover marginalized voices  \n• Reclaim identity  \n• Critique neo-colonialism  \nJournals related to the field of postcolonial literature are:  \n• Kunapipi  \n• Interventions  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \nNégritude Movement  \nOrigin  \n• 1930s, Paris  \n• Founders: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, Léon Damas  \n• First assertion of collective Black identity  \nCore Ideas  \n• Affirmation of Black identity & culture  \n• Rejection of racial inferiority ideology  \n• Culture as anti-colonial resistance  \n• Recovery of African history, myth, language  \n• Early postcolonial discourse  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH DAKSHITA MA’AM FULL PLAYLIST  5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \nCritiques  \nWole Soyinka  \n• Too self-conscious  \n• Dependent on European racial categories  \n• Lacks practical political action  \nFrantz Fanon  \n• Backward-looking  \n• Cultural essentialism  \n• Liberation needs material revolution, not just culture  \nUGC NET ENGLISH WITH 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