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| the formation of an empire; an aspect of all periods of history in which one nation has extended its domination over one or several neighbouring nations |
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| invading and taking over sovereignty of another area, which then becomes known as a colony. "Colonies" are then established by one or more settlements. They are inhabited by colonizers. |
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| traditional def'n: work which is in reaction to, and a response against, the oppressions and constructions of colonization and imperialism and which was produced during but mostly after the end of colonialism. King's challenge: argues that this term is solely based on the assumption that colonization is the primary cause of all Native literatures |
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| "new colonialism"; although countries had achieved technical independence, the ex-colonial powers and the newly emerging superpowers(U.S.) continued to play a decisive role |
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| the undoing of colonialism, the establishment of governance or authority through the creation of settlements by another country or jurisdiction |
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| way people live on a land, not the linear conception of time; happens simultaneously with practices of culture thousands of years old |
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| genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres |
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| postcolonial perspective, a-political, focused on aesthetics of texts |
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| new man, new human, characters, authors, etc of mixed heritage/descent. No one claims to be pure blood anything in the books we've discussed (ex. King, Oscar, Yunior, Lola, the poet Omeros, Will) |
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| logic, whole knowledge system that can trap peoples' minds |
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| ecology of knowledges, transculturation, differentiation of different knowledges depending on the place |
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| the word "culture" should replace the word "society" as "society" is not clear as to who it's including and excluding (dominant society vs. marginalized society). Culture is more inclusive, less broad |
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| we all think we know what it means, but the word is in fact used as government propaganda; hardcore culture class, tolerance rather than desire and acceptance |
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| actual desire and will to cross cultural boundaries and be open to otherness |
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| religious syncretism often takes place when foreign beliefs are introduced to an indigenous belief system and the teachings are blended. The new, heterogeneous religion then takes a shape of its own. |
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The Book of Genesis
- the creation of the world and the first man and woman in biblical terms.
- God's creation of the world by divine speech, man and woman are made to be God's regents over his new creation
- God plants a garden in which he places the first man, and from whose rib he fashions the first woman |
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| Creation story (Indigenous) |
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| animalistic dreaming beliefs where everything, everywhere is alive with Spirit and Beingness, which infuse and animate all Creation, Plans, animals, humans and spirits are all interconnected by energetic threads of light |
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The Book of Revelation
- prediction of the end of the world; deterministic view of history -- that is, apocalypses are generally driven by the belief that history inexorably follows a set path ordained by God |
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| Stories can save and heal, or injure and even kill, so you have to be careful with the stories you tell. Story is history: personal, familial, communal, national, transnational, etc. In Aboriginal Autralia, is used to educate children and Aboriginal Australian cultural heritage; to pass on knowledge about Creation, ancestral beings, places, land, plants, animals... how all of this came into being; to explain spirituality and laws, and to pass on information about the boundaries of tribal lands |
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| traditionally a conqueror writes history, which is always biased; revisionary history is history rewritten by the "little man" to include details that the conqueror left out |
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| words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea (i.e. Omeros) |
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| altering all sorts of realities, healing person (physical, economic, biological and social); misunderstood by Europeans as "voodoo"; can communicate with ancestors; can perform good or black magic |
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| outside the mind, a space that can be revisited; healing journey; Aboriginals understanding of how the ancestral spirits created the landscape and every living thing. It is also the beginning of knowledge and the stories of the laws of existence that ensure survival; dreaming is the continuation of Dreamtime |
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| songs sung by the ancestors during Dreamtime. When these songs are sung, living men feel they're in Dreamtime -- they distinguish all features of the land created by their ancestral spirits as they were traveling across it. Songlines are the footprints of Spirit Ancestors and they sang Beingness into the landscape, setting aboriginal law. Today the journeys of the ancestral spirits are brought to life through songlines -- they can guide you |
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| Aboriginals belong to a place, and area of land in Australia where their totemic ancestors were born, lived and died. This "Belonging Place" was the territory of land created for their kin group, their clan, and their tribe during Dreamtime |
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| when Aboriginals undertake a spiritual journey to a belonging place to renew their relationship with Dreaming and the landscape. Clan members regularly move camp and go on cultural journeys for taking care and for corroborees, initiations and the other cyclical, ritualized ceremonies of Dreamtime |
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| sacred land; along the dreaming tracks there are sacred sites, areas of land or sea, where significant events took place during Dreamtime |
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| ritual ceremonies performed at sacred sites which tell the Dreamtime lore connected with the place; traditional music, song and dance were a vital and powerful part of sacred ceremonies -- dramatic reenactments through song and dance of the tribal history |
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Psychology: the production of a mental sense-impression relating to one sense by the stimulation of another
Literature: the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another |
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| A person of mixed European and African descent and a language formed from the contact of a European language (esp. Portuguese, English, French) with another (esp. African) language. Similarly, patois is the dialect of the common people in a region, differing from the literary language |
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| a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc |
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| the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or to nature (angry clouds, cruel wind) |
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| comparison without "like" or "as"; a metaphor is never innocent, implying that unforeseen meanings accrue, leaving the meaning indeterminate |
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| a part of something is used to signify the whole, as when a ship's captain calls out "All hands on deck!" (in which "hand" signifies the whole person of each sailor) |
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| figurative language that uses particular words to represent something else with which they are associated; when one term is substituted for another term with which is is closely associated ("crown" or "sceptre" stands duty for "monarch") |
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| An economically or culturally progressive core region is to consume a more regressive periphery in order to further its progression at the expense of the periphery |
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| continued impoverishment of colonized 'Third World' countries on the grounds that underdevelopment is not internally generated but a structural condition of global capitalism itself. The core is capitalizing on the resources of the periphery without including that periphery in the profit |
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| the monopoly of European worldviews and ideology where all non-European cultures and societies should be assimilated in accordance with European standards |
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- the importance of naming/names
- storytelling
- oppression
- revisionary history
- core-periphery theory
- journeys
- colonial violence |
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| have to be followed in order to keep the world going; walking in and around Belonging places to keep them alive |
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