Constructs binary
opposition between
the Orient and the
Occident
The Orient is
frequently
described in
negative terms
The West is superior
to the East
Homi K. Babbha
Ambivalence
The complex mix of attraction
and repulsion that characterizes
the relationship between colonizer
and colonized
Hibridity
The creation of new transcultural
forms within the contact zone
produced by colonization.
Mimicry
It appears when members of a
colonized society imitate and take on
the culture of the colonizers.
Frantz Fanon
He stresses the urgent responsability of writers and
intellectuals to forge national consciousness in their work as
part of the struggle for independence