Angelica joy M, Gatdula

BSN 2Y2 8A
Clash of civilizations
The Clash of Civilizations is a thesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the
primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. While presenting this thesis the
American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that future wars would be fought not
between countries, but between cultures. It was proposed in a 1992 lecture at the American
Enterprise Institute, which was then developed in a 1993 Foreign Affairs article titled "The Clash
of Civilizations?” in response to his former student Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book, The End of
History and the Last Man. Huntington later expanded his thesis in a book in 1996 with the title
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.
Postcolonial theory
postcolonial theory is a theoretical approach in literary studies which attempts to critically
analyze the global effects of European colonialism. It has developed out of the earlier theories
of Commonwealth Literature and Third World studies. And as is well known, this field of study
breaks with the ideology associated with Commonwealth Literature’s unthinking claim that the
cultural role of the anglophone writers around the world is to enrich English literature.
Most postcolonial theorists considered Edward Said’s seminal work titled Orientalism as one of
the founding texts of postcolonial theory. In fact, much of the best works in this field of study
has followed the original thesis put forward by Said on how colonial conquests resulted in an
attempt to know and administer colonial subjects which inaugurated the “othering” of the
other, which generates the pervasive images of effeminate Indians, savage Africans, and
inscrutably sinister Orientals that are so common in the literature of Empire.