Appropriation
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05. Appropriation:
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—A term used to describe the ways in which post-colonial societies take over those aspects of the imperial culture -
language, forms of writing, film, theatre, even modes of thought and argument such as rationalism, logic and analysis -
that may be of use to them in articulating their own social and cultural identities.
—Post-Colonial theory focuses on an exploration of the ways in which the dominated or colonized culture can use tools
of the dominant discourse to resist its political or cultural control.
