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Post Colonial Studies by: Samir K. Dash Postcolonialism has been defined as: A description of institutional conditions in formerly colonial societies. An abstract condition of the global condition after the colonial period. A description of discourses informed by psychological and epistemological orientations. the social, political, economic, and cultural practices which arise in response and resistance to colonialism. This corresponds ' definition of postcolonial literature as, 'an always present tendency in any literature of subjugation marked by a systematic process of cultural domination through the imposition of imperial structures of power,' which as they point out implies that postcolonialism is 'already implicit in the discourses of colonialism'. Postcolonialism, like other post-isms, does not signal a closing off of that which it contains (colonialism), or even a rejection (which would not be possible in any case), but rather an opening of a field of inquiry and understanding following a period of relative closure. Colonialism is an event which can be identified, given an historical definition, through its effects and characteristics as they reveal themselves in a given nation, among different cultural and social groupings. Such writings as Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993) discuss discourse analysis and postcolonial theory as tools for rethinking forms of knowledge and the social identities of colonial systems. As a result these tools can be applied to the recognition of modernism and modernity as part of may be called the colonial project of domination. Debates on Postcolonialism are unresolved, yet issues raised in Said's book Orientalism (1978) critique Western descriptions which produce essential representations of Non-Euro-American others, because colonialism as a discourse is based on the ability of Western to enter, examine another culture, produce knowledge, and use that power against those countries. Post colonial studies , over the last decade has been emerged both as A meeting point A background for verity of disciplines. Post colonialism has been seen as a 'decisive, temporal marker of the decolonizing process'. But the fundamental to it is the concept that Gayatri Chakrabarty Spivak had rised in 1985. in that year she threw a challenge to the race and blindness of the Western academy, asking 'Can the subaltern speak?' her question was followed by the work by a collective intellectuals of '1980
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