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Edward Said - Orientalism

- 'they were not like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled.'

- 'certain territories and people require and beseech domination,

because these territories are populated by inferior/subordinate

people or subject races.'

- 'East is everything that the West doesn't want.'

- 'Colonised must stay victims of colonisation.'

Gillian Whitlock - 'empire needs female reproductive bodies.'

Bhabha - 'nation is always a hybrid place.'

- 'lack of absoluteness in nations.'

Gilroy - '2 nations rubbing along each other, have an effect

on each other but not hybrid.'

Shohat and Stam - Unthinking Eurocentrism

- questioned the habit of comparing everything to

Western dominant norms. Highlights the need to assess

peripheral film traditions in their own terms.

Elaine Savory Fido - Motherlands

- mother belongs to culture and a country, gives us our first social identity, should the mothers approval be withdrawn perhaps we might be willing to perform the fundamental act of betrayal.

- Emecheta has reinforced certain negative stereotypes of Igbo culture and Africans in her writing.

Gayatri Spivak - even when the subaltern makes an effort to the death to speak, she is not able to be heard, and speaking and hearing complete the speech act.

Paul Gilroy - expresses frustation that black identity is seen as separate

from national identity - as if it is something new and

distinct.

- works to undermine repeated false insistence that national,

racial, ethnic groups were at the time of colonisation and

afterwards entirely distinct.

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