文档介绍：Week 12
(Post-)colonial Subjectivity
I. Bhabha, Homi K.
II. Fanon, Frantz
Bhabha, Homi K. “Interrogating Identity: The Post Colonial Prerogative” Identity: A Reader. Eds. Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans, and Peter Redman. London: Sage, 2000. 94-101.
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To see the connection
Reality/Presence/Mirror
Essence/Unity/Autonomy
signified
Language
Signifier
A=B, correspondence
Perspective of depth
Realist, mimetic
A vertical model
Bhabha asks:
How do we see a missing person, or look at Invisibleness in the previous model? (96)
To see a missing person is to transgress the subject’s transitive demand for a direct object of self-reflection.
The “I” in the position of mastery is, at that same time, the place of its absence, its re-presentation. (96)
Mimicry
Robinson Crusoe --- Friday
-a mimic man
-black skin/white masks
-metonymy of colonial desire
-inappropriate colonial subjects
-disrupting authoritative representations of
colonial subjectivity
Mimicry repeats . . . and in that very act of repetition, originality is lost, and centrality de-centered.
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The Uncanny
The German word "unheimlich" is considered untranslatable; our rough English equivalent, "uncanny", is itself difficult to define. This indescribable quality is actually an integral part of our understanding of the uncanny experience, which is terrifying precisely because it can not be adequately explained.
Rather than attempting a definition, most critics resort to describing the uncanny experience, usually by way of the dream-like visions of doubling and death that invariably seem to pany it.
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The Uncanny
According to Freud's description, the uncanny "derives its terror not from something externally alien or unknown but--on the contrary--from something strangely familiar which defeats our efforts to separate ourselves from it" (Morris).
Freud discusses how an author can evoke an uncanny response on the part of the reader by strad