Facts about Postcolonial Literature Theory

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   The term 'subaltern,' central to postcolonial literature theory, was adapted from Antonio Gramsci's prison writings to describe socially marginalized groups without political representation.

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   Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, is a foundational text in postcolonial literature theory addressing decolonization and colonial psychology.

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   Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's influential essay 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' is a foundational text in postcolonial literature theory, questioning whether marginalized colonial subjects can have a voice.

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   Homi K. Bhabha's concept of 'hybridity' in postcolonial literature theory describes the cultural ambivalence that emerges in colonial and postcolonial interactions between colonizer and colonized.

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   Postcolonial literature theory draws heavily on Edward Said's 1978 work Orientalism, which examined how Western discourse constructs and dominates non-Western cultures.

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