Racist terms
Settling in a new land for reasons such as avoiding persecution
lover or enthusiast of anything english or british
Anglophile
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
"The honeymoon also created difficulties. His mother blushed as if he has said something improper. The Dases were outraged at the suggestion that their daughter should go away for a fortnight unaccompanied by a younger sister. But they resigned their daughter to her fate. Her husband had been brought up as a Sahib and she must follow his ways."
The Wog by Kushwant Singh
"The stories, with mostly animals as the main characters, were all told in Gikuyu. Hare, being small, weak but full of innovative wit and cunning, was our hero. We identified with him as he struggled against the brutes of prey like lion, leopard, hyena. His victories and we learnt that the apparently weak can outwit the strong."
Decolonising the Mind by Ngugi wa Thiongo
Colonies made to profit off other's resources or labor but the colonizers weren't planning to settle forever
exploitation colonies
Colonies made when foreign settlers arrive in already inhabited territory to permanently inhabit it
settler-invader colonies
"It was even impossible to think of the black people who worked about the house as friends, for if she talked to one of them, her mother would come running anxiously. "Come away, you musn't talk to native"
The Old Chief Mshlanga by Doris Lessing
"Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hope to nought"
The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling
"The growing feeling was due to Mr. Brown, the white missionary, who was very firm in restraining his flock from provoking the wrath of the clan. One member in particular was very difficult to restrain. His name was Enoch and his father was the priest of the snake cult. The story went around that Enoch had killed and eaten the sacred python, and that his father had cursed him."
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A reference to a different literary work within a literary work
allusion
Colonies that are strategic for military purposes
"To take the case of India, only because it's the one with which I'm most familiar. The debate about the appropriateness of English in post-British India has been raging ever since 1947; but today, I find, it is a debate which has meaning only for the older generation. The children of independent India seem not to think of English as being irredeemably tainted by its colonial provenance."
English Is an Indian Literary Language by Salman Rushdie
"My mother pretended not to hear the insult.
The snobbish little bastards! But how can I blame
them? That day I was deeply ashamed of my mother.
Now, whenever I remember, I am ashamed of my shame."
Colonial Cameo by Siriwardena
"The point was that it was meaningless. I was not ten miles from home: I had only to take my way back along the valley to find myself at the fence; away among the foothills of the kopjes gleamed the roof of a neighbour's house, and a couple of hours walking would reach it. This was the sort of fear that contracts the flesh of a dog at night and sets him howling at the full moon."
The Old Chief Mshlanga by Doris Lessing
Michelle Foucault described this as the body of knowledge in which we rely and draw upon
discourse
A story dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character. Usually of high seriousness and portrays events that make you think of existential questions.
tragedy
"This is proved by the fact that we are forced to pay our Arabic and Sanscrit students, while those who learn English are willing to pay us. All the declamations in the world about the love and reverence of the natives for their sacred dialects will never; in the mind of any impartial person, outweigh the undisputed fact, that we cannot find, in all out vast empire, a single student who will let us teach him those dialects unless we pay him"
Minute on Indian Education by Macaulay
"You will agree with me, I am sure, that trade ought to expand and commerce grow, and if we can coax it into mature growth in this Congo basin that it would be a praise-worthy achievement, honoured by men and gods"
Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce by Sir Henry Morton Stanley
"There are 40,000,000 of naked people beyond that gateway, and the cotton spinners of Manchester are waiting to clothe them. Rochdale and Preston women are waiting for the word to weave them warm blue and crimson savelist. Birmingham foundries are glowing with the red metal that shall presently be made into ironwork in every fashion and shape for them, and the trinkets that shall adorn those dusky bosoms; and thee ministers of Christ are zealous to bring them, the poor benighted heathen, into the Christian fold."
Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce by Stanley
A tragic flaw or misguided choice. Because of this the protagonist has a fall, suffers, and realizes they have done something wrong
Hamartia
- alludes to power
- Antonion Gramsci called it the way that people accept or subscribe to ideas that are dominant in society even if it is harmful to them
hegemoney
"Trying in the luscious hills,
struggling in a foreign tongue
no seeing it in the tread of the milk woman
boned with age, toil and pride"
my teacher talks of a sri lankan english by Sumathy
"As he was speaking the boy returned, followed by Akueke, his half-sister, carrying a wooden dish with three kola nuts and alligator pepper. She gave the dish to her fatger's eldest brother and then shook hands, very shyly, with her suitor and his relatives"
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
"I have no knowledge of either Sanscrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value. I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanscrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia."
A Minute on Indian Education by Macaulay