06 post-colonial ppr. 3 term

06 post-colonial ppr. 3 term

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  • Presenter: DrashtiV. Dave • Topic of presentation: 3 terms : Nation/Nationalism, Imperialism and Orientalism. • Enrolment no: PG13101007 • Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English • Maharaja Krisnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University • Paper no: 11- The post-colonial Literature • Roll no: 06 Year: 2014 Unit-5 • Sem: 3 M.A. part-2
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  1) Nationalism: Nationalism is a belief, creed or political ideology that involves an individual identifying with, or becoming attached to, one's nation.  Nationalism involves national identity, by contrast with the related construct of patriotism which involves the social conditioning and personal behaviors that support a state's decisions and actions.
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  • From apolitical or sociological perspective, there are two main perspectives on the origins and basis of nationalism. Nationalism premodernist ancient modernist recent
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  • A nationis a large group of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history. • The concept of "nation" is related to "ethnic community" or ethnic. • National flags, national anthems and other symbols of national identity are commonly considered highly important symbols of the national community. • “Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.” ― Albert Einstein
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  4) Imperialism: Imperialism is a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.  The term as such primarily has been applied to Western political and economic dominance in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some writers, such as Edward Said, use the term more broadly to describe any system of domination and subordination organized with an imperial center.  Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”. In this novel main theme are colonialism and imperialism.
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   According toMarxist theorist Vladimir Lenin, imperialism is a natural feature of a developed capitalist nation state as it matures into monopoly capitalism. In his work Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.  Lewis Samuel Feuer identifies two major subtypes of imperialism; i) regressive imperialism & ii) progressive imperialism
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  5) Orientalism: •"Orientalism” is a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S. It often involves seeing Arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized, and at times dangerous. Edward W. Said, in his groundbreaking book, Orientalism, defined it as the acceptance in the West of “the basic distinction between East and West (Wikipedia)
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  • Examples ofearly Orientalism can be seen in European paintings and photographs and also in images from the World’s Fair in the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th centuries. • Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between;
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  • Orient- theEastern part of Asia. • It is opposite to Occident. • "Orientalism" is widely used in art to refer to the works of the many Western 19th-century artists, who specialized in "Oriental" subjects, often drawing on their travels to Western Asia. Artists as well as scholars were already described as "Orientalists" in the 19th century, especially in France, where the term, with a rather dismissive sense, was largely popularized by the critic Jules-Antoine Castagnary
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  • Work Cited: • http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/natio nalism • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism