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Post-Colonialism

Post-Colonialism. Sinead Macauley. Post-Colonialism in Literature. Typically refers to the struggle for ethnic, cultural and political autonomy Hybridity Awareness of imposed cultural or social inferiority on a colonised S ubaltern classes:

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Post-Colonialism

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  1. Post-Colonialism Sinead Macauley

  2. Post-Colonialism in Literature • Typically refers to the struggle for ethnic, cultural and political autonomy • Hybridity • Awareness of imposed cultural or social inferiority on a colonised • Subaltern classes: “lower or colonised classes with little access to their own means of expression.”

  3. Literal • Battles in Macbeth: Act 1 -> Norway attacks (Thane of Cawdor) Act 1 -> Ireland attacks (Macdonwald) Act 5 -> Macbeth vs. Macduff and the English army and Malcolm’s benevolence and influence over “the conquered” • Malcolm and Donalbain go to England, presumably assimilate into English culture to remain hidden

  4. The Shakespearean Discourse • Shakespeare and hybridity • How a subservient culture functions - Power and Revolution - Influence • Shakespeare’s practicality vs. the impulsive characters as the imposing and imposed http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-no-longer-unusual-read-shakespeare-through-372040

  5. The Shakespearean Discourse • Archetypal elements leading to expectations regarding themes and key ideas - Typical elements of his narrative • Lady Macbeth’s double-mindedness

  6. Metaphoric Colonialism • A metaphor for generic oppression • Sub-cultures are imposed on by the majority or the figure(s) of authority • Macbeth and Macduff are dependent on the witches’ prophecy as they have great respect for them • The Jacobean society submits to kings out of the belief of “divine appointment” • Ambivalence: the way in which coloniser and colonised regard one another

  7. Metaphoric Colonialism • Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth that he needs to “be a man” “ What beast was ’t, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man.” – Act 1 Scene 7 http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/page_42.html

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