Balaji Rangnathan :- REFLECTION BLOG ON LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE EXPERT LECTURES ON POST-COLONIAL STUDIES

Our Head of the Department and professor Dr. Dilip Barad has invited Dr. Balaji Rangnathan from the Central University of Gujarat. Gandhinagar to our Department of English, MKBU.

He came in our department for 3 days ... On 19,20,21th August, 2019. Balaji sir came here to deal with Postcolonial studies.

◆ The various topics which discussed by him are :-

1. Black Skin, White Mask by Frantz Fanon
2. Orientalism by Edward Said
3. A Tempest by Aime Cesaire
4. Imaginary Homlands by Salman Rushdie

"Black Skin White Mask" by Frantz Fanon :-

This unit is divided into seven chapters:-

1)  The Negro and language
2)  The woman of color and white man
3)  The man of color and white woman
4)  The So-called dependency complex of the colonized
5)  The lived experience of the black man
6)  The Black man and psychology
7)  The Black man and Recognition

Prof. Balaji Sir gave us the main ideas about the book in following way

• Toward a new humanism
• Understanding among men
• Our colored brothers
• Mankind, I believe in you
• Race prejudice
• To understand and to love

 "Imaginary Homelands" by Salman Rushdie

We have some of easy in our syllabus :-

1) Attenborough’s Gandhi
2) Commonwealth literature Does not Exist
3) New Empire within British
4) On Palestine

 "Orientalism" by Edward Said

what is Orientalism?

In simple word Orientalism means the countries which are colonized by other colony or the countries.

This unit is divided into three chapters:-

1)  The Scope of Orientalism
2)  Orientalist structure and Restructures
3)  Orientalism Now

"A Tempest" by Aime Cesaire

Balaji Sir told us difference between Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Cesaire’s A Tempest. we can not see much difference between Shakespeare’s The Tempest & Aime Cesaire’s  A Tempest. we see master slave relationship & colonial concept.