Sunday, 24 April 2011

How does postcolonial criticism uses poststructural theories to understand a text?

One
significant way in which postcolonialism uses poststructuralism in understanding texts is within
the issue of race and racial identity.  For the postcolonialist, the concept of "race"
is beyond binary opposition.  It goes beyond "white" and "other." 
Poststructuralism is concerned with the exploration of narrative beyond established contours, to
explore the root of identity that might lie past the artificially constructed realms of
"cultural majority" and...

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