Postcolonial Criticism
Oriental discourse
Self- Other
Medieval period in Japan
Nature abundant
Compromise between human beings and nature
Marginalization
- Not under patriarchal power/authority
Princess Mononoke
live on her own in the forest
- Become / represent the force of the nature
- Exploited / manipulated
- antagonist
Lady Eboshi – good / bad?
manage the iron town
- Help the marginalized / outcast / the Other
- How to live/survive under the harsh / indifferent condition of living with the nature
- Natural disaster gods
Prince Ashitaka
- Moderate
- Affected by the curse / boar
- Hatred of the nature / greed of human beings / harshness – human invasion
The Others
The Abject Stool – urine uncanny
The Subaltern military term
The God of Small Things
Native – Colonizer
Kami –
spirit in nature / natural spirit
close connection between gods and human beings
myth human beings to explain the natural phenomenon
heroine and war / history
- Women are not recognized in history. male-dominated
- Restricted in the domestic sphere
- Chef – housewife
ASIA – ASEAN
women – life-giving symbol / fertility
Kodama – fertility - Deer God
TEST
depiction / portrayal of Eastern women – men