POST-COLONIALISM
WHAT, WHERE, WHEN
Postcolonialism is a political, economic and
social movement following the colonialism.
It developed in foreign colonies and into
European colonists countries from the
18th to the first half of the 20th century.
Orientalism (in 1978) by Edward W. Said is
considered a seminal text because with
this text the main themes of
postcolonialism where made explicit for
the first time.
THEMES
• freedom
• independence
• the distances between colonists and
people subjected by them
• the discovery of identity
• the acquisition of power.
WHO
JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE
Winner of the Nobel Prize for literacture in 2003, he is
consider the most important writer of South Africa.
Bore in 1940 in Città del Capo, he gratuated in maths and
language. In 60s he worked in London as computer
programmer for IBM.
Later he graduates in literary in Texas Universty and he
teached english language and literacture in Buffalo
University.
Now he’s working for english department in Adelaide
University.
BIOGRAPHY
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-colonialism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonial_literature
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-colonialism
• http://www.marilenabeltramini.it