Austrian Inner Colonialism and the Visibility of Difference in Stifter's Die Narrenburg

PMLA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 1475-1492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Metz
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Adalbert Stifter ◽  
The Moment

This essay reads the novella Die Narrenburg (1844; “The Castle of Fools”), by the Austrian germanophone writer Adalbert Stifter (1805–68), in terms of colonial and postcolonial theory. I argue that Die Narrenburg captures the moment when race becomes visible in a multinational Austrian Empire figured as inner colonial space. The novella also offers a challenge to the reality of race emerging into visibility and presents a strikingly modern picture of divided colonial consciousness, its desires suspended melancholically between the symptomatic maintenance of imperialist identifications and a sensitivity to the colonized that anticipates Frantz Fanon. The text thus exposes Hapsburg Austria as an unexpected symbolic locus for thinking about European racial and colonial discourse. It serves as a perceptive theorist of race and colonialism in a broad sense and suggests how we might read other seemingly peripheral works of central European literature for insights into intra- and extra-European colonial contexts. (JM)

Psychoanalytical Theory in Postcolonial Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Audrius Beinorius ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
The Future ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Project

This article deals with some earlier applications of psychology for the analysis of the colonial condition offered by three thinkers—Octave Mannoni, Frantz Fanon and recent applications of Freudian psychoanalytical theory in the poststructuralist approach of Homi K. Bhaba. An attempt is made to compare their standpoints and reflect more broadly on what their implications mean for the future of psychoanalysis’ place in postcolonial critique. Also to answer a vital question in the theoretical project of postcolonial studies: Is psychoanalysis a universally applicable theory for psychic disruption in the colonial context? What are differences in the application of psychological theory for studies of colonial discourse? The conclusion of the paper is: Despite the problematic inheritance of racializing thinking psychoanalysis has proved to be an important and reoccurring methodology in colonial critique and postcolonial theory. Nevertheless, it is necessary to recognize that psychoanalysis itself is a colonial discipline and must become an object of colonial discourse analysis.

The Creation of Tiquicidad and Theories of National Identity

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-52
Author(s):  
Liz Harvey-Kattou
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Gayatri Spivak ◽  
Benedict Anderson ◽  
The Creation

This chapter delves into the psyche of Costa Rica’s identity, providing a historical and sociological analysis of the creation of the dominant – tico – identity from 1870 to the present day, framing these around theories of colonial discourse. Considering work by postcolonial scholars such as Benedict Anderson, Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, and Judith Butler, it explores how the discourse of centre and ‘Other’ has been created within the nation. It then provides a historical account of ‘Otherness’ within the nation, detailing the existence and rights won by Afro-Costa Rican, feminist, and LGBTQ+ groups, detailing a framework of hybrid subalternity which will be used to consider the challenges put forward to dominant national identity in chapters two and three.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Rik Van Nieuwenhove
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Theoretical Wisdom ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Cognitive Virtue

This chapter sketches the nature of contemplation. In the strict sense contemplation refers to the moment of insight after speculative reasoning. In the broad sense of the word, however, it refers to a receptivity to God that all Christians should cultivate. It is important to distinguish between these different meanings and the corresponding varied notions of wisdom (theoretical wisdom; as cognitive virtue; and as gift of the Holy Spirit) if we want to avoid attributing inconsistencies to Aquinas (who in ST I, q. 6, a. 6, ad 3 argues that the gifts are not necessary for contemplation but elsewhere (ST II-II, q. 45, a. 3) emphasizes their necessity for contemplation (in the broad sense)). Against the current of today’s scholarship the chapter also argues that Christian contemplation is included in Aquinas’s notion of ‘imperfect happiness’ on earth. The chapter concludes with an outline of the book.

The Ottoman Empire, Southeastern European Literature, and Postcolonial Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-393
Author(s):  
Eralda L. Lameborshi
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Mediterranean

Abstract The Ottoman Empire shaped much of the Mediterranean world and yet, postcolonial scholarship has developed very few tools that engage with it as a pre-modern and pre-capitalist empire. Given its influence, it is necessary to understand the Ottoman Empire as a colonial force, especially in literatures that represent its reign. Southeastern European literature is ripe for such analysis as it seeks to understand the Ottoman legacy in Southeastern Europe, and to account for the ways in which the Ottoman Empire’s imperial model created worlds within worlds, where regions not located in the imperial center were not peripheries but provincial centers. The works of Ivo Andrić, Ismail Kadare, and Meša Selimović fictionalize history in an attempt to show how history itself happens in these provincial centers. Audiences become aware of the Ottoman presence as a droning hum in the background with a lasting cultural, linguistic, and religious legacy.

scholarly journals T. E. Lawrence's Misrepresentation of the Arabs in Seven Pillars of Wisdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Bani Taha
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Negative Representation

Adopting postcolonial theory, this article investigates T. E. Lawrence's depiction of the Arabs in his Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926). I argue that Lawrence displays a Western colonial discourse in which he represents the Arabs as the silent uncivilized "Other." Part of this colonial discourse is Lawrence’s presentation of himself as superior, prophet, leader and inspirer of the Arab Revolt. Arab leaders and tribes are depicted, in Lawrence's discourse, as an inferior "Other" who need the English to help them achieve their independence. In addition, I argue that Lawrence’s negative representation of the Arabs is an ideology that justifies Western domination over the East. Lawrence’s misrepresentation addresses Arab feuds, nature and atmosphere, Arabic language, Arab costume, and religion. Keywords: Arab Revolt, Colonial Discourse, Other, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence

scholarly journals Uncovering Identity Complication in Season of Migration to the North a Novel by Tayeb Salih

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Saman A. Husain
Keyword(s):  
No Value ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Tourist Satisfaction ◽  
The North ◽  
Tayeb Salih

The aim of this paper is to analyse and investigate the issue of identity in Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North according to postcolonial theory.  Identity crisis refers to the context in which a person questions the whole idea of life. Philosophically, the identity crisis has been studied under the theories of existentialism. The term is coined to indicate a person, whose egoism and personality is filled with questions regarding life foundation, feeling and arguing that life has no value. in the novel by Tayeb Salih, Season of Migrating to the North, there are several instances that can be cited to indicate the existence of an identity crisis in the story. In this paper, we highlight and exemplify on such issues in an attempt to show how the theme of identity crisis has been presented in the novel. The paper considers the postcolonial theories of Edward Said, Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha to analyse the novel in terms of their representation of identity crisis. Keywords— tour guides, tour guide performance, tourist satisfaction, destination and customer loyalty.

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