Topic > Bhabha's Contribution to Postcolonial Theory - 2600

Colonialism is and has been a reality in previous centuries. As a political and economic reality, this had significant consequences in the politics of the colonized country, in the geographical maps, in the life, destiny and temperament of the people. Since the consequences are difficult to ignore, writers from previously colonized countries have never forgotten to write about the subject and the lives of their people before, during and after the colonization of their country. Since Emecheta is one of these writers, born and raised in Nigeria, a colony of the British Empire until 1960, the postcolonial approach is one of the most appropriate critical methods to approach her narratives. Furthermore, as it focuses on women in the colonial and postcolonial context seeking to foreground their subjugation, the use of ideas proposed by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Chandra Talpade Mohanty as pioneers of postcolonial feminism are helpful in coming to the desired conclusion in this thesis. In addition to Mohanty and Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha's propositions regarding the colonized self and its dual subjectivity are also useful. At the heart of feminist concerns among postcolonial scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Talapde Mohanty is Western feminism's inattention to differences among women. Spivak exposes how the world is presented from the dominant perspective and geopolitical position of the First World, to the exclusion of other disenfranchised groups. Regarding women in Third World countries, she believes that the daily lives of many Third World women are so complex and unsystematic that they cannot be directly known or represented by the vocabulary of Western critical theory. In this regard, the lived experiences of these women can be seen pre......middle of the article......2 (2004):365-373.Schneider, Gregory. “The Guide of RK Narayan and Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta”www.assosiatedcontent.com/article.Stanford Friedman, Susa. “Localized Feminism: Gender, Cultural Geographies, and Geopolitical Literacy.” www. Women.it/cyberarchive/files/Stanford.htm Ure Mezu, Rose. “The Other's Perspective: Rape and Women in Buchi Emecheta's The Rape of Shavi.” Bookbird 36.1 (1998): 12-16. Ure Mezu, Rose. Buchi Emecheta's "The Bride Price" and "The Slave Girl": A Schizoanalytic Perspective .Van Judith Alan. “Sitting on a Man: Colonialism and the Last Political Institutions of Igbo Women.” and The Joys of Motherhood. PMLA 105.1(1990): 83-97.