08/12 8. Empire, Resistance, and Global Voices Free Online FlashCards

How do colonialism and imperialism differ?

Colonialism generally involves political domination and often settlement by one people over another, while imperialism is broader control through economic, military, or political power.

What does postcolonial literature examine?

Postcolonial literature examines the cultural consequences of colonial rule and the continuing effects of imperial power, including effects on race, language, economics, borders, and institutions.

What is Said’s Orientalism?

Orientalism is the construction of “the East” as exotic, backward, mysterious, or irrational in contrast with a supposedly rational and modern Europe.

What forms can resistance to empire take?

Resistance can include rebellion, independence movements, strikes, boycotts, religious renewal, cultural preservation, and everyday acts of refusal.

What is linguistic refusal?

Linguistic refusal reshapes the colonizer’s language through local rhythms, syntax, idioms, and names.

What is a diaspora?

A diaspora is a dispersed population whose members maintain real or imagined connections to an ancestral homeland while living elsewhere.

What themes commonly appear in diasporic literature?

Diasporic literature commonly explores divided identity, inherited trauma, translation, racialization, nostalgia, return or non-return, and new communities across borders.

What does cultural hybridity describe?

Cultural hybridity describes new identities, practices, and forms created through cultural contact under conditions that may involve unequal power.

What is colonial mimicry?

In Bhabha’s account, mimicry occurs when colonized subjects are encouraged to imitate the colonizer but are never accepted as fully equal.

Why is language choice political in postcolonial literature?

The choice of language is both aesthetic and political because language carries culture, memory, audience, access, and relations of power.

How does Ngũgĩ’s language choice express decolonization?

Ngũgĩ’s decision to write major works in Gikuyu represents linguistic decolonization by rejecting exclusive reliance on English and affirming local cultural authority.

How does Things Fall Apart challenge colonial history?

In Things Fall Apart, Achebe uses Igbo social detail, proverbs, and communal narration to challenge the idea that African history begins with European arrival.