Ideologies of Postcolonialism: Shifting Trajectories
El Houcine Ouazzani Ibrahimi
Abdelaziz El Amrani
Abstract
It is generally acknowledged
that post-colonialism is a product of some ideologies and hermeneutic methodologies that have contributed to its
formation and development. As a fighting term, a theoretical weapon, and “the
need, in nations or groups which have been victims of imperialism, to achieve
an identity uncontaminated by Universalist or Eurocentric concepts and images,”
postcolonial discourse is torn between its use of mutually incompatible
critical categories. This means that post-colonialism is lacking a monolithic
foundation. With this in mind, the present paper seeks to highlight the
ideologies and trajectories which have shaped the field of postcolonial studies
as an academic discipline, which attempts to undermine and transform the dominance of Eurocentrist
colonial discourses. The purpose here is not to provide an exhaustive account
of the field, but to focus on the main hermeneutic methodologies that have contributed
to the constitution of post-colonialism as a discursive discourse.
Keywords: post-colonialism, postmodernism, Marxism,
nationalism, post-structuralism, feminism, secularism
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