Post Colonialism - LECTURER: RICHARD LEAHY PDF

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Derangement, Mimicry, Power and Transformation. This language makes it sound like a colony. o Derangement – To make something unstable. o Mimicry – Teach someone to adapt to your culture. Assert your own identity upon these people. Could reverse – not only colonizers to colonised, it is colonised to colonizer too. o Power – Apply Marxist ideas to colonisation. Who holds power, and how it is maintained. o Transformation – A society or a culture is transformed into something else. Ideological State Apparatus > Repressive structure – Overtly authorial structures, police, army. Power – Ideology – Hegemony. Colonization forms around power. Believing in the idea of public execution, it’s less about punishment, it is more about obtaining power. They want a symbol and a display of power. The being of chapter six – the tower. Is it phallocentric? Resent of power – it is a Freudian of perspective. Trying to stop people from killing themselves, but they want them to kill each other. Preservation of entertainment. The Hunger Games – Pg. 97. o Ironic – Katniss cannot talk – parallel to the Avox. Iconography of power. “I do want to talk to someone” – Reinforces the idea of passivity, and acceptance. o “No one will hear us talking” o Drawing comparisons between the idea of the power and repressed. The idea of the electricity – power over energy power. They are keeping the electricity to themselves. It assures that they will always be dependent on the Capitol, as they are restricted. “The colony disorders the sense of not only of place but also of time.” – Bennet and Royle pg.288 o “How long have I been gone? I’m guessing it’s been about two weeks in the arena” – pg.306 o The Capitol control the time, how long the day is, the conditions in which they live. o “That would give me something to cling to in the surreal world of the arena where the authenticity of everything is to be doubted.” o Repetition of the idea of time – she notes that there is 60 seconds, and it is repeated for emphasis, but the next time we see her mention time, is her saying it’s been about two weeks. “Conditioned by European ways of thought” – In the period before they go into the arena, all of the Capitols way of living, they go from ‘European’ thought – to barbaric. It reinforces the power that the Capitol have. o Goes from civilized to uncivilised in the 60 seconds. The Game Makers have control over life and death. You can show the tribute/sacrifice – must be control, the moment that someone tries to “eat someone’s heart who he killed” – that is no controlled, so shows weakness from the Capitol. o Controlling the nature of something, and consume it. Cannibalism is dangerous to the Capitol, it shows loss of power. Cornucopia – It is where the Capitol has put all the resources, the districts have to make their own role. Familiar surroundings. Subjectivity – “I don’t want them to change me in there, make me into some kind of monster that I’m not.” Peeta. “Purity of self”...