Learning session with Pro. Balaji Rangnathan
On 16 to 18 september , we have learning session with guest lecturer Pro. Balaji Rangnathan. Who is expert in post- colonial paper. Though post- colonial paper is very hard to understand but after these lectures it is easy to understand post colonial subject.
On very first Rangnathan sir explains the idea of state and nation , that post-colonial as modern nation. State is fix in geographical lines and fix territory. It's structure is by certain governance. While , nation is an imagination , can't fix. Because visualization changes time to time. Ideals and visions never had been same as was.
Frantz Fanon , ' Black skin White masks ' sir explains the concept of desire which is central to human brings. Desire is possessive whether good or bad. sometimes desire loss is excellent but also disastrous.
According to Freud desire is main element behind the sexuality.
" The whiteman is sealed in his whiteness and the Blackman in his blackness. "
Color seems as not biological but impression and symbolic . And language as part of culture. Blackman want to become like French and he have to possess language completely.
There is always ' Binaries ' " What you are and want to achieve. " We try to reach at certain standard but it is nothing only Binaries.
Mayotte in love with whiteman. Because whites are always superior race then black. They are consider as negro and inferior , backward race. ' God is also characterised by color. the black man love to marry with white woman. Because they thought they are worthy of love of white.
Rangnathan sir also explained that middle class concentrated on act and living. They don't create idology but accept others. " Taboos " in middle class. There is a need of leave ghost of past and create revolution by present.
' A Tempest ' by Aime cesair, how different in approach of Caliban with prospero as master then ' The Tempest ' by Shakespeare. Caliban is aggressive against him and not accept slave - master relation. Thus the post - colonial aspect in A Tempest.
' Orientalism ' by Edward Said about the difference between east and west. How Western consider as a civilized and Eastern as uncivilized people. Arabs , Jews , islam still are uncivilized and backward. In name of civilization one colonized other and colonizers never thought to against them.
Rangnathan sir provided vast knowledge of subject with interest. It will very useful to understand the post-colonial paper. We thank to Dr. Dilip Barad sir for inviting such a knowledgeable personality in our department.
On very first Rangnathan sir explains the idea of state and nation , that post-colonial as modern nation. State is fix in geographical lines and fix territory. It's structure is by certain governance. While , nation is an imagination , can't fix. Because visualization changes time to time. Ideals and visions never had been same as was.
Frantz Fanon , ' Black skin White masks ' sir explains the concept of desire which is central to human brings. Desire is possessive whether good or bad. sometimes desire loss is excellent but also disastrous.
According to Freud desire is main element behind the sexuality.
" The whiteman is sealed in his whiteness and the Blackman in his blackness. "
Color seems as not biological but impression and symbolic . And language as part of culture. Blackman want to become like French and he have to possess language completely.
There is always ' Binaries ' " What you are and want to achieve. " We try to reach at certain standard but it is nothing only Binaries.
Mayotte in love with whiteman. Because whites are always superior race then black. They are consider as negro and inferior , backward race. ' God is also characterised by color. the black man love to marry with white woman. Because they thought they are worthy of love of white.
Rangnathan sir also explained that middle class concentrated on act and living. They don't create idology but accept others. " Taboos " in middle class. There is a need of leave ghost of past and create revolution by present.
' A Tempest ' by Aime cesair, how different in approach of Caliban with prospero as master then ' The Tempest ' by Shakespeare. Caliban is aggressive against him and not accept slave - master relation. Thus the post - colonial aspect in A Tempest.
' Orientalism ' by Edward Said about the difference between east and west. How Western consider as a civilized and Eastern as uncivilized people. Arabs , Jews , islam still are uncivilized and backward. In name of civilization one colonized other and colonizers never thought to against them.
Rangnathan sir provided vast knowledge of subject with interest. It will very useful to understand the post-colonial paper. We thank to Dr. Dilip Barad sir for inviting such a knowledgeable personality in our department.
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