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Essay / Bhabha's contribution to postcolonial theory - 2600
Colonialism is and has been a reality in previous centuries. As a political and economic reality, it had important consequences on the politics of the colonized country, on its geographical maps, as well as on the lives, destiny and temperament of the people. As the consequences are difficult to ignore, writers from formerly colonized countries have never forgotten to write about the lives of their people before, during and after the colonization of their country. Emecheta being one of these writers, born and raised in Nigeria, a colony of the British Empire until 1960, the postcolonial approach is one of the most appropriate critical methods to approach her stories. Furthermore, since it focuses on women in the colonial and postcolonial context trying to highlight their subjugation, the use of ideas proposed by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Chandra Talpade Mohanty as pioneers of postcolonial feminism is helpful in achieving to the desired conclusion in this thesis. In addition to Mohanty and Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha's propositions regarding the colonized self and its dual subjectivity are also useful. At the heart of the feminist concerns of postcolonial scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Talapde Mohanty is Western feminism's inattention to differences between women. Spivak exposes how the world is presented from the dominant perspective and geopolitical situation of the First World, to the exclusion of other disenfranchised groups. Concerning women in Third World countries, she believes that the daily lives of many Third World women are so complex and unsystematic that they cannot be known or represented in a simple way through the vocabulary of Western critical theory. In this regard, the experiences of these women can be seen in the middle of the article......2 (2004):365-373.Schneider, Gregory. “The Guide to RK Narayan and Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta” www.assosiatedcontent.com/article.Stanford Friedman, Susa. “Local feminism: gender, cultural geographies and geopolitical literacy”. www. Women.it/cyberarchive/files/Stanford.htm Ure Mezu, Rose. “The Perspective of the Other: Rape and Women in BuchiEmecheta's The Rape of Shavi.” Bookbird 36.1 (1998): 12-16. Ure Mezu, Rose. “Bride Price” and “The Slave Girl” by Buchi Emecheta: 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 Said to Buchi Emecheta: Oral Subjectivity.” and The Joys of Motherhood. PMLA 105.1(1990): 83-97.