Postcolonial Lens
When one country violently invades and takes control of another nation/territory/land, claims the land as its own, and sends people to live on that land
What is colonisation?
Two examples of concerns of feminist critical theory.
Gender roles, power dynamics, representation of queer and trans identities, patriarchy, reproductive rights, patriarchy, stereotyping, challenging traditional gender norms, solidarity among women
According to Marx, society is divided into these two classes.
What are the proletariat and the bourgeoisie?
Special rights, advantages, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
What is privilege?
A comparison of two different things using the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison explicit.
What is a simile?
The process of revealing and dismantling colonialist power in all its forms, including dismantling the hidden aspects of those institutional and cultural forces that had maintained the colonialist power and that remain even after political independence is achieved.
What is decolonisation?
Gender overlaps with with other identity factors such as race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity.
What is intersectionality?
Economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
What is capitalism?
A worldview that is centred on Western civilisation or a biased view that favours it over non-Western cultures and people.
What is Eurocentrism?
A non-human object is given human-like qualities.
What is personification?
The process through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and mode of life of an embracing culture.
What is assimilation?
Sets of norms dictating what types of behaviours are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on their actual or perceived gender identity.
What are gender roles?
Term used to describe land, labour, and capital that is used to make/distribute products.
What are the means of production?
Something that only exists because humans agree that it exists.
What is a social construct?
"Love is a battlefield, where hearts are wounded and scars remain" is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
An academic discipline that examines the construction of the East by the West.
What is Orientalism?
The definition of patriarchy.
What is a system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress, and exploit women.
How cultural elements are commodified and how characters' identities are influenced by economic forces.
What is commodification?
Dominance, especially by one social group over others.
What is hegemony?
A statement or situation that appears to be self-contradictory or logically absurd, but upon closer examination, may reveal a deeper truth or meaning.
What is a paradox?
The process by which a cultural practice is made stimulating, mystical and exciting in its difference from the coloniser's normal perspective.
What is exoticism?
Term that describes a text's objectification and sexualisation of women characters. Women/girls are typically presented as objects of desire or as passive figures to be looked at, rather than as fully developed characters with agency and autonomy.
What is the male gaze?
Awareness of different experiences and the development of solidarity among different socioeconomic status groups
What is class consciousness?
This lens examines whether a text promotes the overthrow of existing systems or suggests alternatives to the prevailing socioeconomic order.
What is the Marxist lens?
Create an example of juxtaposition.
Your example should place two (or more) ideas, characters, settings, or themes side by side to highlight their differences or similarities.