Reflective blog- Teaching of Professor Balaji Ranganathan

Reflective blog- Teaching of Professor Balaji Ranganathan

            We have a guest lecture for Postcolonial studies by Balaji Ranganathan from 19th to 21st Aug. 2019. In these three days, we have discussed four units and background.

What is important Past, Present or  Future ???

We mostly live or suffer in our past that whatever happened with us in the past(study, job, relationship, success, goal), when we come out from past we worried about the future and we are not doing harder or focus in current the situation so it is harmful to the future so present is more important than past and the future.

keep the sense from the past and learn it

and be in present with a focus

 future will change automatically

Syllabus and research points

We are still studying the old syllabus and doing research about the past rather than focus on the present so somehow we are losing many things in a temporary time. We have to learn new things and adaptations with technology.

Knowledge bank

Keep update yourself with historical knowledge and temporary period and make personal data bank with years and with proof so it will be impressive and authentic. Don't blindly follow whatever people said about anything try to find and analyze all the things.

            Sir has great historical knowledge. He connected Indian history with post-colonialism. He said about freedom movements with years.

During these three days, we discussed four units and background

1. The Black skin White mask by Frantz Fanon

2. Orientalism by Edward Said

3. A Tempest by Aime Cesaire and

4. Imaginary Homeland by Salman Rushdie

The Black skin White mask by Frantz Fanon

            Black skin white mask, Frantz fanon combines autobiography, case study, philosophy and psychoanalytic theory in order to describe and analyze the experience of Black men and women in white-controlled societies.

            He talked about how white has fear of black, black craves to be white, a language of white and black, desire never sees color and

ORIENTALISM.

            How western countries see the middle east, how popular culture represents the middle east, the history of Palestine, and etc. In short, we can say that they all present things by their preconceived notions.

A TEMPEST and THE TEMPEST.

            How A Tempest is different from The Tempest,  how Shakespeare's work helped in Postcolonial studies,  how Aime Cesaire's re-writing leads the attention of scholars and   Albert Camus Rebel with the character calls Caliban.

           

            Furthermore he talked about IMAGINARY HOMELANDS. In that, he threw more light on diaspora,  ideas of nation and state, how people like Rushdie has to suffer and much more.

He said that start to think about these last 10 years, which types of change happened and do analysis about it. Don't be depend only on Rushdie but think new about temporary and try to explore your point of view.