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Posted: 14 years ago

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For students of theatre, Post-colonial Drama is important because it insists that plays are part of the culture of postcolonial countries, and critics discussing them have important contributions to make to discussions of postcolonial studies. The limitation of this study, like many others in the field, is the failure to acknowledge that the relationship between the colonized and colonizer is defined by an economic relation: countries colonize other countries in order to exploit them.

The exclusion of the material as an axis defining postcolonialism risks postcoloniality being an aesthetic. Postcolonialism must engage questions of power; questions of power and colonial relations are never far removed from considerations of the material. In the context of studying drama and theatre, postcolonial studies need to engage with the material conditions of production and their implications.

http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/TRIC/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol21_1/&filename=review.wilson.htm

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Fantasia.

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Stunner

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Posted: 14 years ago

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Post-colonialism (postcolonial theory, post-colonial theory) is a specifically post-moderncolonialism.

The ultimate goal of post-colonialism is accounting for and combating the residual effects of colonialism on cultures. It is not simply concerned with salvaging past worlds, but learning how the world can move beyond this period together, towards a place of mutual respect. This section surveys the thoughts of a number of post-colonialism's most prominent thinkers as to how to go about this. intellectual discourse that consists of reactions to, and analysis of, the cultural legacy of

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Fantasia.

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Posted: 14 years ago

#293

A single, definitive definition of postcolonial theory is controversial; writers have strongly criticised it as a concept embedded in identity politics. Postcolonial Theory - as epistemology, ethics, and politics - addresses matters of identity, gender, race, racism and ethnicity with the challenges of developing a post-colonial national identity, of how a colonised people's knowledge was used against them in service of the coloniser's interests, and of how knowledge about the world is generated under specific relations between the powerful and the powerless, circulated repetitively and finally legitimated in service to certain imperial interests. At the same time, postcolonial theory encourages thought about the colonised's creative resistance to the coloniser and how that resistance complicates and gives texture to European imperial colonial projects, which utilised a range of strategies, including anti-conquest narratives, to legitimise their dominance.