Writing the Woman into Cinema by Janet McCabe

Author:Janet McCabe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: PER004000, SOC028000, SOCIAL SCIENCE/Women’s Studies, Performing Arts/Film and Video/General
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 2005-01-11T21:00:00+00:00

The objective of colonial discourse is to construe the colonised as a population of degenerate types on the basis of racial origin, in order to justify conquest and to establish systems of administration and instruction. (1992: 316)

Stereotyping functions to normalise an image of the Other. This is achieved by initiating knowledge that oscillates between what is already known and somehow fixed, and something which must be anxiously and compulsively replicated in order to maintain credibility.

Bhahba contends that stereotyping is a form of phobic behaviour and the stereotype a type of fetish. He points to the way in which colonial discourse makes visible ‘the traumatic impact of the return of the oppressed’ through ‘those terrifying stereotypes of savagery, cannibalism, lust and anarchy which are the signal points of identification and alienation, scene of fear and desire in colonial texts (1992: 318). These images function like the Freudian fetish, recognising racial, cultural and historical difference and its disavowal:

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