Post-Colonialisms (II) Strategies of Resistance

Post-Colonialism: Major Issues 1.Colonialisms – Definition – Orientalism & Lit. examples of Colonialism 2. Post-Colonialism: Resistance and Immigration A. Resisting colonialism/Constructing postcolonial identities through Language, History and Identity ConstructionLanguageHistoryIdentity Construction Strategies: Separatism (Nativism), Re- Creation, Cultural Syncreticism, Mimicry, Active participation, Assimilation.Strategies examples B. Diaspora and Globalization

Resistance and Constructing postcolonial identities  Language: reversing or confusing the language hierarchy  (I.) the use of Taiwanese, 客家話  (II) mixing languages: (Three stages: Adopt, Adapt, Adept) e.g. “My Man Bovanne”

History: Re-Visioning  Re-writing: e.g. 《無言的山丘》《香蕉的天堂》  Re-Visioning: 《阿爸的情人》、《悲情 城市》、《戲夢人生》《好男好女》、 《太平天國》、《高砂百合》等

Identity and Strategies  Identity  Separatism (Nativism),  Integration, Active participation,  Assimilation.  Strategies  Essentialist Construction  Re-Creation,  Cultural Syncreticism,  Conscious Mimicry  Mimicry Duality and Hybridity

 Cultural Difference: with gaps and fissures in need of constant negotiation.  (Against Multiculturalism)  “Culture as a strategy of survival is both transnational and translational. ” (Homi Bhabha) Post-Structuralist + Post-Colonial Theories of Cultural Difference

 Post-Structuralist + Post-Colonial Theories of Mimicry and the Subaltern The Subaltern cannot speak (Spivak). C center Colonial Mimicry: All the same but not quite-- Indian gentleman or Indian celebration of U.K.’s national day. Taiwanese Imitation of Madonna Différance

Conscious Mimicry  Yong Soon Min Make Me, 1989

Conscious Mimicry/Parody  Ken Chu  I Need some More Hair Products (1988)

Post-Colonial Literature: Example (1)  “Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies” by Salman Rushdie  power relations among Ms. Rehana as a Tuesday woman, M. Ali, “lala” the British Consulate, and her fiance.  Ms. Rehana’s decision.

“My Man Bonvanne”  Toni Cade Bambara ( ), author of “The Lesson”  the narrator, Miss Hazel Peoples  her language: Black English (ebonics)  her style: wig, cornrows

“My Man Bonvanne”  The setting?  Why does Miss Hazel dance so closely with Bonvanne? What role does she play in her relationship with Bonvanne? (p. 23 "Wasn't about tits.”; p. 26)  Her children’s disagreement and Ms. Hazel’s response (Task, Elo, and Joe Lee)  What does the last bathing ritual mean?