Bhabhas Contribution to Postcolonial Theory Essay -- Sociology

Colonialism is and has been a reality during previous centuries. As a political and economical reality it entailed significant consequences in the colonized countrys politics, geographical maps, and peoples lives, fates and temperaments. As the consequences be hard to ignore the writers of the formerly colonized countries never forgot to write about it and their peoples lives before, during and after their countrys colonization. As Emecheta is one of these writer who is born and brought up in Nigeria, a colony of British Empire until 1960, postcolonial approach is one of the most appropriate critical methods to deal with her narratives. Besides, since she is focusing on women in the colonial and postcolonial setting onerous to foreground their subjugation, utilizing 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. Bh abhas propositions regarding the colonized self-importance and her/his dual subjectivity also are helpful.Central to feminist concerns among the postcolonial scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Talapde Mohanty is Western feminisms inattention to the differences among women. Spivak exposes how the world is presented from the dominant perspective and geopolitical placement of the First World to the exclusion of other disenfranchised groups. Regarding women in the Third World countries she believes that the everyday lives of many Third World women are so colonial and unsystematic that they cannot be known or represented in a straightforward way by the vocabulary of Western critical theory. In this respect, the lived experiences of such women can be seen to pres... ...2 (2004)365-373. Schneider, Gregory. R.K Narayans The Guide and Buchi Emechetas Kehinde www.assosiatedcontent.com/article. Stanford Friedman, Susa. Locational Feminism Gender, Cultural Geographies, and Geopolitical Literacy. www. Women.it/cyberarchive/files/Stanford.htmUre Mezu, Rose. The Perspective of the Other Rape and Women in Buchi Emechetas The Rape of Shavi. Bookbird 36.1 (1998) 12-16. Ure Mezu, Rose. Buchi Emechetas 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. Canadian Journal of American Studies. 28.2 (1972) 165-71.Ward, Cynthia. What They Told Buchi Emecheta Oral Subjectivity and The Joys of Motherhood. PMLA 105.1(1990) 83-97.