Postcolonial Criticism Vocab

What is Nordicism?

• Protecting "native-born's" inhabitants over immigrants

• Concept of the "Nordic race" as an endangered and superior racial group

• Imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other motor movements

• Feeling of not being at home or a lack of comfort in one’s surroundings

What is Diaspora?

• People scattered across regions separate from the initial place of origin

• Cross between two separate races, plants or cultures

• Protecting "native-born's" inhabitants over immigrants

• Imitation of the Eastern world: writers, designers, and artists in the West

What is Hybridity/Syncretism?

• Imitation of the Eastern world: writers, designers, and artists in the West

• Cross between two separate races, plants or cultures

• People scattered across regions separate from the initial place of origin

• Protecting "native-born's" inhabitants over immigrants

What is Unhomeliness?

• Imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other motor movements

• Cross between two separate races, plants or cultures

• People scattered across regions separate from the initial place of origin

• Feeling of not being at home or a lack of comfort in one’s surroundings

What is Mimicry?

• Cross between two separate races, plants or cultures

• People scattered across regions separate from the initial place of origin

• Practice of domination, involving subjugation of one people to another

• Imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other motor movements

What is Colonialist ideology?

• Protecting "native-born's" inhabitants over immigrants

• Seeing things from the point of view of Europe or European people

• The practice of domination, involving the subjugation of one people to another

• Imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other motor movements

What is Othering?

• Defined and labeled as not fitting in within the norms of a social group

• Imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other motor movements

• People scattered across regions separate from the initial place of origin

• Imitation of the Eastern world: writers, designers, and artists in the West

What is Eurocentrism?

• Race concept of the "Nordic race"as an endangered and superior racial group

• Defined and labeled as not fitting in within the norms of a social group

• Practice of domination, involving subjugation of one people to another

• Seeing things from the point of view of Europe or European people

What is Orientalism?

• Defined and labeled as not fitting in within the norms of a social group

• Imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other motor movements

• Imitation of the Eastern world: writers, designers, and artists in the West

• Feeling of not being at home or a lack of comfort in one’s surroundings

What is Nativism?

• Protecting "native-born's" inhabitants over immigrants

• People scattered across regions separate from the initial place of origin

• Population that's scattered across regions separate from its initial origin

• Imitation of the Eastern world: writers, designers, and artists in the West