Key Concepts: Orientalism, Postcolonialism, Negritude

Posted by admin on Apr 23, 2025 in Applied Languages | 0 comments

Latent Orientalism

There is a distinction between ‘latent’ and ‘manifest’ Orientalism. Said borrows these terms from Freud.

Latent Orientalism describes the dreams and fantasies about the Orient that, in Said’s view, remain relatively constant over time.

Manifest Orientalism refers to the myriad examples of Orientalist knowledge produced at different historical junctures.

Said proposes that while the manifestations of Orientalism will inevitably be different, due to reasons of historical specificity

Postcolonial Theory in the 21st Century

Posted by admin on Mar 1, 2025 in Applied Languages | 0 comments

Into the twenty-first century: By the end of the 1990s, what had come to be known as ‘postcolonial theory’ had been established, existing almost as a discipline in its own right. A number of critical works subsequently appeared, attempting to guide readers through the fast-developing, and often abstruse, concepts and new vocabularies of postcolonialism. These were very much influenced by the terminologies used by Said, Bhabha, and Spivak. One particularly important development in the field in recent