Open AccessExploring the Elements of Postcolonialism and its Exponents
Author(s) -
Kishan Swaroop Rana
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the creative launcher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-6580
DOI - 10.53032/tcl.2021.6.5.06
Subject(s) - postcolonialism (international relations) , hybridity , mimicry , identity (music) , multiculturalism , colonialism , sociology , cultural studies , postcolonial literature , gender studies , postmodernism , anthropology , aesthetics , history , literature , art , ecology , pedagogy , biology , archaeology
Postcolonialism is an academic discipline that analyses, explains and responds to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism. The purpose of the present study is to examine the postcolonialism and elements of postcolonialism such as marginalization, identity, multiculturalism, racial discrimination, hybridity, mimicry etc. The article discusses the thoughts of Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak on postcolonialism as well.