Abrogation: Postcolonial Theory concepts | Postcolonialism
Channel: Dr. Masood Raja
Date: 2019-11-08

What is  Abrogation in Postcolonial Theory? | Postcolonialism
Abrogation refers to the rejection by post-colonial writers of a normative concept of ‘correct’ or ‘standard’ English used by certain classes or groups, and of the corresponding concepts of inferior ‘dialects’ or ‘marginal variants’. The concept is usually employed in conjunction with the term appropriation, which describes the processes of English adaptation itself, and is an important component of the post-colonial assumption that all language use is a ‘variant’ of one kind or another (and is in that sense ‘marginal’ to some illusory standard). Thus abrogation is an important political stance, whether articulated or not, and even whether conscious or not, from which the actual appropriation of language can take place.

[Source: Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts] 

African Author Mentioned in the video:
Amos Tutuola: "The Palm Wine Drinkard." https://amzn.to/2BXzROS

(The following page contains a write up of abrogation and also a link to the Key Concepts book on Amazon)

More details: https://postcolonial.net/glossary/abrogation/

What is Postcolonialism:
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