Compare One Feminist Critical Approach with a Post Colonial Critical Approach
Over the last twenty years there has been a vast transformation in literary theory that has fundamentally questioned our comprehension of literature as an object of critical study. From this transformation many critical approaches have been formed such as the feminist and post-colonial and many more. In this essay I hope to compare the two mentioned critical approaches in their attempt to explain their theories on literature. Both feminist and post-colonial approaches attempt to show the misrepresentation of sexual or cultural roles within literary works. The post-colonial approach is a recent one, arising during the 1990s that has managed to become one of the most important and vigorous areas of cultural research. ... The post-colonial theory deals with reading and writing of literature written in countries that have been colonized, or written in colonizing countries and deals with the colonization and colonized people. ... Stephen Slemon suggests that “one of the most exciting research projects going on in colonial discourse analysis, for example is Homi Bhabbha’s theorizing of colonist ambivalence, and his attempt to carry this analysis forward to a wholesale critique of Western modernity.” (The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, 1995, p50) Homi.