Reflective blog- Teaching of Professor Balaji Ranganathan
Reflective blog – Teaching of Professor Balaji Ranganathan
(Date- 19-21 August 2019)
We have guest lectures for Postcolonial studies by Balaji Ranganathan. This session is fruitful for us. And I would like to special thanks to our professor Dilip Barad who introduced most of the units before the guest lectures.
Balaji sir had also well explained this hard paper teaching us easy way.
We have post-colonial studies paper. In this paper such interesting units –
1) Black skin white mask
2) Imaginary Homelands
3) Orientalism
4) A Tempest
In the first lecture Balajisir introduced post-colonial studies then sir said main ideas of first unit Black skin white mask by Frantz Fanon.
This unit divided in seven chapters –
1) The Negro and language
2) The woman of colour and white man
3) The man of colour and white woman
4) The So-called dependency complex of the colonized
5) The lived experience of the black man
6) The Black man and psychology
7) The Black man and Recognition
Pro. BalajiSir started this unit to explain important thing like
• Toward a new humanism
• Understanding among men
• Our colored brothers
• Mankind, I believe in you
• Race prejudice
• To understand and to love
Sir given new idea of thinking desire word connect with lack. And explain which kind desire word connected with of lack. And told us binary is a kind of problem to understand postcoloniality.
Race as like same problems as Aryan facing in front of white.
It is discourse of studies – The white man is sealed in his whiteness. And tha e Black man is his blackness.
Balaji sir explain different between castism and Rasim both are different discourse in postcolonial studies. This unit first to three chapters deal with the Modern Negro. The analysis is above all regressive. Forth and fifth chapters – Rest on a fundamentally different basis.
And something called the fact of Blackness.
In the first chapter – The Negro and Language dealing with this ideas-
The Black man has two dimensions one with his fellow the other with the white man. A Negro behave differently with a white man and with another Negro.
How the language standardization ?
Some of the families completely forbid the use of creole and mother ridicule their children for speaking it.
In the second chapter ideas devoted to the relation between the woman of color and the European, it is our problem to ascertain to what extent authentic love will remain unattainable before one has purged oneself of that feeling of inferiority or that Adlerian exaltation, that overcompensation, which seem to be the indices of the black weltanchauung.
Indeed no the good and merciful God can not be black as like Kalima and sir gave also an example of south Indian God colour.
Sir has highlight sixth chapter The Negro and psychopathology – As like most of the people have prejudice and judgement something so it is also called stereotype or prejudice ideas of human psychology. Then explain the last chapter and at last conclude this unit.
Second-day lectures Balaji sir explain two units
– Orientalism by Edward Said
A Tempest by Amie Cesaire
Sir given ideas about what is Orientalism?
Orient means which countries colonized by other colony or the countries of the East and specially East Asia.
Orientalism by Edward Said is a colonial text of cultural studies in which he has challenged the concept of Orientalism or the difference between East and west.
This unit divided in three chapters –
1) The Scope of Orientalism
2) Orientalist structure and Restructures
3) Orientalism Now
Sir talked about Orientalism is methodology as like Roland Barths. Orientailsm is not individual ideas but it is discourse of knowledge. And related to this academic traditional whose fortune, specialist. Everything is man made it is not natural. Sir tell also about particular research and writing .
Then sir explain “ A Tempest” by Amie Cesaire. And found difference between Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Cesaire’s A Tempest.
Explain this ideas –
• Identity
• Colonial resiontion
• Appropriation of Language
• Term of Rebellion
This play character like Eshu – traditional international knowledge black devil God
The Tempest Calibian character portrait as like frustrate slave or pity conditional slave. While A Tempest Calibian character portrait as strong rebellion slave. Here this play colonial dominant so shouting word mentioned it is strong rebellion.
In the third day lectures Balajisir dealing with last unit Imaginary Homeland by Salman Rushidie. We have some of easy in our syllabus –
1. Attenborough’s Gandhi
2. Commonwealth literature Does not Exist
3. New Empir within British
4. On Palestine
Sir has explained this topic.
Diaspora Traditional understanding force to get of your nation. Salman Rushdie including as Diaspora writer. In the Diaspora literature globalisation completely change. Nostalgia and Memory most of problems for Diaspora literature’s writers. Rushdie is not talking about past but he was talking about vivid imagination so contrast and narrative around which you feel comfortable. Provicially attempt capturing past, the state truth about the war in Bangladesh, Emergency also mentioned during ideas of politics. Other essay Attenborough’s Gandhi studies as postcolonial ideas like Gandhi character portrait as role model hero in the film but this ideas broken when we study as postcolonial perspective.
Really these three days were full of useful for enhancing our knowledge. So I would like to thanks Balaji Ranganathan sir who come for teaching this paper.
(Date- 19-21 August 2019)
We have guest lectures for Postcolonial studies by Balaji Ranganathan. This session is fruitful for us. And I would like to special thanks to our professor Dilip Barad who introduced most of the units before the guest lectures.
Balaji sir had also well explained this hard paper teaching us easy way.
We have post-colonial studies paper. In this paper such interesting units –
1) Black skin white mask
2) Imaginary Homelands
3) Orientalism
4) A Tempest
In the first lecture Balajisir introduced post-colonial studies then sir said main ideas of first unit Black skin white mask by Frantz Fanon.
This unit divided in seven chapters –
1) The Negro and language
2) The woman of colour and white man
3) The man of colour and white woman
4) The So-called dependency complex of the colonized
5) The lived experience of the black man
6) The Black man and psychology
7) The Black man and Recognition
Pro. BalajiSir started this unit to explain important thing like
• Toward a new humanism
• Understanding among men
• Our colored brothers
• Mankind, I believe in you
• Race prejudice
• To understand and to love
Sir given new idea of thinking desire word connect with lack. And explain which kind desire word connected with of lack. And told us binary is a kind of problem to understand postcoloniality.
Race as like same problems as Aryan facing in front of white.
It is discourse of studies – The white man is sealed in his whiteness. And tha e Black man is his blackness.
Balaji sir explain different between castism and Rasim both are different discourse in postcolonial studies. This unit first to three chapters deal with the Modern Negro. The analysis is above all regressive. Forth and fifth chapters – Rest on a fundamentally different basis.
And something called the fact of Blackness.
In the first chapter – The Negro and Language dealing with this ideas-
The Black man has two dimensions one with his fellow the other with the white man. A Negro behave differently with a white man and with another Negro.
How the language standardization ?
Some of the families completely forbid the use of creole and mother ridicule their children for speaking it.
In the second chapter ideas devoted to the relation between the woman of color and the European, it is our problem to ascertain to what extent authentic love will remain unattainable before one has purged oneself of that feeling of inferiority or that Adlerian exaltation, that overcompensation, which seem to be the indices of the black weltanchauung.
Indeed no the good and merciful God can not be black as like Kalima and sir gave also an example of south Indian God colour.
Sir has highlight sixth chapter The Negro and psychopathology – As like most of the people have prejudice and judgement something so it is also called stereotype or prejudice ideas of human psychology. Then explain the last chapter and at last conclude this unit.
Second-day lectures Balaji sir explain two units
– Orientalism by Edward Said
A Tempest by Amie Cesaire
Sir given ideas about what is Orientalism?
Orient means which countries colonized by other colony or the countries of the East and specially East Asia.
Orientalism by Edward Said is a colonial text of cultural studies in which he has challenged the concept of Orientalism or the difference between East and west.
This unit divided in three chapters –
1) The Scope of Orientalism
2) Orientalist structure and Restructures
3) Orientalism Now
Sir talked about Orientalism is methodology as like Roland Barths. Orientailsm is not individual ideas but it is discourse of knowledge. And related to this academic traditional whose fortune, specialist. Everything is man made it is not natural. Sir tell also about particular research and writing .
Then sir explain “ A Tempest” by Amie Cesaire. And found difference between Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Cesaire’s A Tempest.
Explain this ideas –
• Identity
• Colonial resiontion
• Appropriation of Language
• Term of Rebellion
This play character like Eshu – traditional international knowledge black devil God
The Tempest Calibian character portrait as like frustrate slave or pity conditional slave. While A Tempest Calibian character portrait as strong rebellion slave. Here this play colonial dominant so shouting word mentioned it is strong rebellion.
In the third day lectures Balajisir dealing with last unit Imaginary Homeland by Salman Rushidie. We have some of easy in our syllabus –
1. Attenborough’s Gandhi
2. Commonwealth literature Does not Exist
3. New Empir within British
4. On Palestine
Sir has explained this topic.
Diaspora Traditional understanding force to get of your nation. Salman Rushdie including as Diaspora writer. In the Diaspora literature globalisation completely change. Nostalgia and Memory most of problems for Diaspora literature’s writers. Rushdie is not talking about past but he was talking about vivid imagination so contrast and narrative around which you feel comfortable. Provicially attempt capturing past, the state truth about the war in Bangladesh, Emergency also mentioned during ideas of politics. Other essay Attenborough’s Gandhi studies as postcolonial ideas like Gandhi character portrait as role model hero in the film but this ideas broken when we study as postcolonial perspective.
Really these three days were full of useful for enhancing our knowledge. So I would like to thanks Balaji Ranganathan sir who come for teaching this paper.
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