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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Postcolonial Criticism Perspective

Discussion Questions:
530:

• What, according to Murfin, does postcolonial criticism typically involve?

531:

• What was the Negritude movement?
• How, according to Murfin, does postcolonial criticism relate to cultural criticism?

532:

• Explain Raymond Williams's conception of repressive ideologies.
• Explain Michel Foucault's conception of how power works.
• Explain Edward Kamau Braithwaite's concept of creolization.

533:

• Explain Homi Bhabha's concept of hybridity.

534:

• Explain Edward Said's concept  of Orientalism.
• Explain Gayatri Spivak's concept of the subaltern.

535:

• What focus, according to Murfin, can generally be found in work by postcolonial feminists?

536-37:

• What issues, according to Murfin, have been raised by critics of postcolonial thought?

537:

• How, according to Murfin, does Allan Lloyd Smith employ postcolonial criticism in his essay on Frankenstein?