UDK 325.3
Author
Žana Damnjanović
Summary
More than three decades from publishing Said’s Orientalism, it seems essential to reevaluate the impact of the postcolonial thought. After many decades of efforts of postcolonial critics to point out to mechanisms used to construct the colonial subject as the inferior Other, the XXI century world is still a slave to same stereotypes and Manichean categorization of the humankind. That is why some critics believe the postcolonialism has reached a dead end, and that goals and basic postulates of this theory have to be redefined in accordance to new globalist trends. However, an undoubtedly significant achievement of postcolonial criticism is that it has shown that constant reexamination of some of the basic assumption of European thoughts is necessary in order to destabilize the Eurocentric vision of the World, which is constructed in academic circles of the Western society and based on exclusion of the majority of the world population. Postcolonial feminism and feminism of the Third World, as theories that combine the need for racial, class and gender equality represent new forms of dialogue and struggle against oppressive social systems, and postcolonial theory constantly expands the field of interest in order to include terms such as: autonomy, cosmopolitism and diaspora, as key concepts of the new era of the postcolonial world.
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URL: https://www.ibn-sina.net/en/the-role-of-postcolonial-thought-in-redefining-the-western-vision-of-the-world/