Stories of Women 2005
DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719068782.003.0008
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Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative

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“…The binary of "self" and "other" is a foundational concept in the dominant discourse of colonial powers, which places the white, Westernand generally maleworld view and experience as superior and "right" over all others, forming an image of the colonized as uncivilized, immoral and unnatural. By presenting their position as right and the "truth," colonizers not only create a myth of superiority that justifies their colonizing efforts and forces their dominant discourse onto the colonized, but they also present that "truth" as universal, further downplaying other competing discourses and determining how truth is verified (Xie, 1999;Boehmer, 2005;Ashcroft et al, 2002). The self/other binary of the dominant discourse is intertwined with the creation and preservation of norms.…”
Section: Silencing Voices and Vanishing Stories: Colonial Narratives ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The binary of "self" and "other" is a foundational concept in the dominant discourse of colonial powers, which places the white, Westernand generally maleworld view and experience as superior and "right" over all others, forming an image of the colonized as uncivilized, immoral and unnatural. By presenting their position as right and the "truth," colonizers not only create a myth of superiority that justifies their colonizing efforts and forces their dominant discourse onto the colonized, but they also present that "truth" as universal, further downplaying other competing discourses and determining how truth is verified (Xie, 1999;Boehmer, 2005;Ashcroft et al, 2002). The self/other binary of the dominant discourse is intertwined with the creation and preservation of norms.…”
Section: Silencing Voices and Vanishing Stories: Colonial Narratives ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many scholars such as Aguirre (2000); Cole (2009); DeCuir and Dixson (2004) claim that the white identity seems to be permitted to linger as the normative standard whereas the black identity is othered and marginalised. Furthermore, Boehmer (2005, p. 32) notes that “the imperial identity spread over the old identity of the colonised and thus immortalised the notions of class division and racism.” The post‐colonial African elites sought to promulgate oneness and equality, and utterly break away from colonial identities such as racism. This initiative comes crashing down when the 6‐year‐old Teddy, son of the Faquars in the story, unveils attitudes, perceptions and reactions that are racially motivated.…”
Section: Racial Tension In Lessing's No Witchcraft For Salementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This affirmation of rape as emblem of national masculinity finds its actualization in Carvalho’s description of Pondal’s relation to the land, or to put it in the heavily feminized vocabulary of traditional galeguismo , the terra nai . The recurrent image of the nation as the “iconic mother” has been extensively studied in feminist critiques of nationalist discourse (Boehmer 2005, 108). In the Galician context, Noa Rios Bergantinhos has likewise identified that “A figura de Galiza como nai –necessitada do carinho e o afecto do povo galego –, é muito recorrente no conjunto das obras dos teóricos e dirigentes nacionalistas” [The image of Galicia as a mother in need of her people’s love and affection recurs frequently in the texts of the Galician nationalist ideologues and leaders] (2001, 159).…”
Section: Approaching Masculine Excess In Ricardo Carvalho Calero’s Himentioning
confidence: 99%