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Quotes About Postcolonialism Quotes tagged as "postcolonialism" (showing 1-16 of 16) Edward W. Said “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once— there has to be a limit” ― Edward W. Said tags: colonialism, imperialism, israile, palestine, postcolonialism, victim 273 likes like Zadie Smith “A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals-that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.” ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth tags: postcolonialism 9 likes like Frantz Fanon “Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in GraecoLatin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.” ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth tags: africa, history, postcolonialism, racism 9 likes like “The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. 'God had made us master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may ister government among savages and senile peoples.' From the vantage point of the colonizing episteme, the evil is always disorder rather than unjust order; anarchy rather than control, darkness rather than pallor. To plead otherwise is to write 'carte blanche for chaos.' Yet those who wear the mark of chaos, the skins of darkness, the genders of unspeakable openings -- those Others of Order keep finding voice. But they continue to be muted by the bellowing of the dominant discourse.” ― Catherine Keller, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming tags: chaos, colonialism, feminism, history, nature, oppression, order, postcolonialism, religion, theology 6 likes like Zadie Smith “And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like baldness or testicular carcinoma, but sometimes on the very same day.” ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth tags: postcolonialism 4 likes like

Christopher Hitchens “Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented life of the radical freelance scribbler. I have lived to see Ronald Reagan called “a useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda” by his former idolators; to see the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarded with fear and suspicion by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (which blacked out an interview with Miloš Forman broadcast live on Moscow TV); to see Mao Zedong relegated like a despot of antiquity. I have also had the extraordinary pleasure of revisiting countries—Greece, Spain, Zimbabwe, and others —that were dictatorships or colonies when first I saw them. Other mini-Reichs have melted like dew, often bringing exiled and imprisoned friends blinking modestly and honorably into the glare. E pur si muove—it still moves, all right.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports tags: 20th-century, cold-war, colonialism, communism, czechoslovakia, despotism, dictatorship, freedom, greece, journalism, liberation, mao-zedong, milos-forman, moscow, postcolonialism, propaganda, ronald-reagan, russia, soviet-union, spain, television, united-states, zimbabwe 3 likes like Bauvard “Postcards and postcolonialism are two things I advocate for people who can't afford to go on vacation.” ― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic tags: funny, humor, postcolonialism, vacation 3 likes like Alexander McCall Smith “Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert that the world was theirs too, that what happened in Botswana was every bit as important, and valuable, as what happened anywhere else.” ― Alexander McCall Smith, The Double Comfort Safari Club tags: africa, colonialism, postcolonialism 2 likes like Chinua Achebe “...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before her eyes: that in the absurd raffle-draw that apportioned the destinies of post-colonial African societies two people starting off even as identical twins in the morning might quiet easily find themselves in the evening one as President shitting on the heads of the people and the other a nightman carrying the people's shit in buckets on his head.” ― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah tags: africa, postcolonialism 2 likes like Arundhati Roy “As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy with the blood of others. Colonialism, apartheid, slavery, ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, chemical weapons - they virtually invented it all.”

― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living tags: colonialism, european-civilization, history, hypocrisy, international-development, postcolonial-theory, postcolonialism, third-world-feminism, western-civilization, western-history, western-hypocrisy 1 likes like Namsoon Kang “Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant problems: first, its essentialist tendency; second, its fixed _we-they_ binary position; third, its homogenization of diverse social oppression; fourth, its simplification of the complexity and paradox of being privileged and unprivileged; and fifth its ruling out of intersectional space of diverse forms of oppression in reality.” ― Namsoon Kang, Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World tags: christianity, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, feminism, identity-politics, postcolonial, postcolonialism, spivak, theology 1 likes like Wong Yoon Wah “The stories surrounding eating durians remind us that literature should incorporate low culture, bringing it closer to lived reality. These legends come not from the pens of the elite, but are assembled from the words of the masses, both written and spoken, ed from one person to another—the only way to create a text this deep and compelling.” ― Wong Yoon Wah, Durians Are Not the Only Fruit tags: durian, postcolonial-literature, postcolonialism, southeast-asia 1 likes like “Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.” ― Lena Hussain tags: cleverness, determinism, life-lessons, philosophy, postcolonialism, power, stupidity 1 likes like “Power is something that is out of term.” ― Lena Hussain tags: decolonization, determinism, imperialism, postcolonialism, power 1 likes like “From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which they find their meaning - and which they, in turn, transform.” ― Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest tags: postcolonialism 0 likes like Namsoon Kang “Walter Mignolo and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from above––economically, politically and culturally." Although _globalization from below_ is to counter _globalization from above_ from the experience and perspective of those who suffer from the consequences of _globalization from

above_, cosmopolitanism differs, according to Mignolo, form these two types of globalization. Mignolo defines globalization as 'a set of designs to manage the world,' and cosmopolitanism as 'a set of projects toward planetary conviviality” ― Namsoon Kang, Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World