September 3 Colonialisms and Cosmopolitanisms
September 3 Colonialisms and Cosmopolitanisms
September 3 Colonialisms and Cosmopolitanisms
Questions:
a. What would you feel if you lived in the past?
b. Do you like your way of life at present?
c. How is the past and present related/opposite to each other?
D. Instruct the students to read the essential question
1. How does Garcia critique the notion of cosmopolitanism in his poem on Amsterdam?
Analysis:
2. What did you discover in the activity?
3. What do you feel about the information?
Abstraction:
1. What is the relevance of this information to the 21st century youth?
Application:
XVIII, from “Amsterdam: A Cycle” was written by J. Neil C. Garcia who uses poetry as a means to understand and examine post-
colonialism. In Amsterdam, he wrote 60 cycles of the observation of the speaker in Amsterdam.
Definition of Imperialism and Post-Colonialism
Imperialism Post-Colonialism
The policy extending a nation’s authority by territorial gain, or by It is a critique of western representation of race, ethnicity,
the establishment of economic and political dominance over culture, and human identity after colonization.
other nations
J. Neil Garcia is in recent interest centers on post-colonial perspectives of writers. He tries to answer if poetic theories respond to
the problems and issues of postcolonialism. Listen to an excerpt from his blog.
a. What does it reveal about J. Neil Garcia?
b. What do you think of Garcia as a post-colonial poet?
c. What ideology does Garcia possess?
Ideology is a collection of doctrines and beliefs shared by members of a group or a society. It can be described as a set of
conscious and unconscious ideas which make up one’s beliefs, goals, expectations, and motivations. An ideology is a
comprehensive normative vision that are followed by people, governments, or other groups that is considered the correct way by
the majority of the population, as argued in several philosophical tendencies.
Questions:
1. As a descendant of the colonized people, how do you feel that the descendants of the
colonizers mingle/live with you (as if nothing ever happened)?
2. Do you think the world really forgets the past?
3. Do people choose what to remember and what to forget?
4. Why do you think people live with great oblivion of colonialism?
5. Did colonized people move on because they are free or because they are free or because they
have to survive?
V. Assessment:
Figure of speech Meaning Example
Synecdoche It is a figure of speech in which a part is The ranch has several hired hands.
substituted for the whole or the whole
stands for a part.
Metonymy It is a figure of speech in which one word Malacanang asked the radio stations for air
or phrase is substituted for another with time on Friday night.
which it is closely associated; also, the
rhetorical strategy of describing something
indirectly by referring to things around it.
VI. Assignment:
1. Give a brief historical background about Amsterdam.
2. Explain the connection of the creoles, the natives, and others to Amsterdam.
3. Discuss the theme of the poem.
Prepared By:
VII. Assessment:
Figure of speech Meaning Example
Synecdoche It is a figure of speech in which a part is The ranch has several hired hands.
substituted for the whole or the whole
stands for a part.
Metonymy It is a figure of speech in which one word Malacanang asked the radio stations for air
or phrase is substituted for another with time on Friday night.
which it is closely associated; also, the
rhetorical strategy of describing something
indirectly by referring to things around it.