Postcolonial

Question 0

Eurocentrism

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Use of the European culture as the standard to which all other cultures are negatively contrasted

Question 1

Colonialist ideology

Answer 1

Colonizers assumption of their own superiority, which they contrasted with the alleged inferiority of native peoples, the original inhabitants of the lands they invaded

Question 2

Universality

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The long-standing philosophy in European/ American literary studies in which a text’s characters and themes were considered universal depending on whether or not they resembled characters and themes from European literature

Question 3

Othering

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The practice of judging all who are different as less than fully human

Question 4

Cultural colonization

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The inclusion of a British system of government and education, British culture, and British values that denigrate the culture, morals, and even physical appearance of formerly subjugated peoples

Question 5

Cultural imperialism

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A direct result of economic domination consisting of the takeover of one culture over another

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Mimicry

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Attempt of the colonized to be accepted by imitating the dress, behavior, speech, and lifestyle of the Colonizers

Question 7

Double consciousness

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Feeling torn between the social and psychological demands of two antagonistic cultures

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Unhomeliness

Answer 8

To feel not at home even in your own home because you are not at home in yourself - Tyson 421

Question 9

Orientalism

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A positive national self definition for Western nations by contrast with Eastern nations on which the West projects all the negative characteristics it doesn’t want to believe exist among its own people

Question 10

Hybridity

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Perspective whereby states of marginality, plurality, and perceived Otherness are seen as sources of energy and potential change