Post #7

The presentations helped me a lot for what choice to pick on my final. According to the presentations about Post-colonialism, this means colonies of other countries. Assumed that European cultures are the ones that spread this. I was able to grab two three term from this, which are orientalism, un-homeliness, and decolonization. Orientalism means something considered characteristic of the peoples and cultures of west, east, or central Asia. The knowledge and study of these languages and cultures. Un- homeliness meaning neither culture feels like home for a person it could mean they don't feel like they belong anywhere.  An ideology that is often forced on groups of people. And decolonization meaning giving political independence to a country that was previously a colony. They term hybridity stood out the most for me. It means the creation of new transcultural terms within the contact zone produced by colonization. takes many forms including cultural, political, and linguistic. A good example of New Historicist that the presentation talked about was a story. So, we basically feel that history is history but we can not really say why and how it happened we were never in their shoes so we can not possibly know the reasons to why they decided to do what they did. For African American theory I was able to understand the theory through the short story Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison. About real cultural issues affecting African Americans in society throughout history. For example, when they see the naked white lady they don't know if they should look or not look. They do not know how they are expected to behave. Therefore they do not know their place in society. And Queer Theory which was mainly about how gays, lesbians, cross-dressing, and any other that might fall into the term queer. Like the term binaries meaing men/women and straight/gay. Sexuality and gender are fluid concepts. One great example that my group and I were able to relate this theory with was Brokeback Mountain. A movie that was meant to show the love relationship of two men and we were able analyze how society sees that as just a plain "gay" movie. But queer theory analyzes the term gay and lesbian. By placing them together for the term queer. The terms in the presentation for each of the theories made it a lot of easier for me to understand them.