Exam Flashcards
The stolen generations
Between 1910-1970 Aboriginal children were taken from their homes and taken to places to be trained for work, e.g. Domestic servants. They were promised a ‘proper’ education but many did not learn to read and write.
This was part of the law. It didn’t usually include children that were ‘full blood’ status just those who had some white blood.
Assimilation
The absorption and integration of people, ideas, or culture into a wider society or culture:
Assimilation was a highly intensive process necessitating constant surveillance of people’s lives, judged according to non- Indigenous standards
Literary Terms
Narrative situation
Homodiagetic: Is the protagonist in the story
Heterodiagetic: Narrator does not take part in the plot
Autodiagetic: The narrator and the protagonist
Extradiagetic: The external narrator
Intradiagetic: Thoughts and actions of the characters.
The Narrative Eye: Reflecting on the events etc
Literary Terms:
Type
Sociography: Non official social writing, not using the proper academic research for academic writing but still commenting on social points.
Autobiography: Written about the self
Terms
terra nullius
That a land is unoccupied. I new virgin land
Terms:
homogenization
Making everyone the same in terms of culture so washing out the differences.
Postcolonial:
When does a place become postcolonial
When they have been emancipated from the colonisers. When they become recognised by ‘the modern world’ as a separate entity and self governing from the colony.
OR
From the beginning of the colonial process.
Post colonial literature
That which criticises the authoritative voice within the colonising society. Offering counter discourse and different styles. It counters the values etc that colonies are built on.
Orientilism
The other, How Europe/The West sees other cultures.
Something to say they are not. Negative view of the other to lift the self
Aboriginal
The term generally used to speak about all the indigenous people in Australia’s mainland.
Culture and Barthes
Denotation and connotation
Denotation: literal meaning
Connotation: Idea or feeling in which the word invokes.
Connotations become naturalised so that people don’t realise that a word is connotation rather than denotation.
Foucault
What and who has a right to speak
Regimes of truth
Those in power decide what is true
Saussuare vs Derrida
A signified does not have anything naturally connected to it until a signifier is applied.
Derrida, nothing is arbitrary everything has become a signifier so there are endless possibilities of meanings.
Edward Said
The exotic other. The orient and the occident (The rest and the west)
Defining oneself by saying I’m not like those people
