Activity 1

• Subaltern – someone of lower status
• Orientalism – the representation of asia in a stereotyped that is from the perspective of colonialists.
• Diaspora – the dispersion of any people away from their home or homeland.
• Exoticism – style, traits or characteristics associated with a particular distant foreign country.
• Mimicry – imitating or mimiking something or someone in order to ridicule them.
• Otherness – The quality of being different

Activity 2

I think the film ‘Amazing Grace’ from 2006 explores the themes of the poem well. The film is based on a true story about a christian politician and member of parliament called William Wilberforce, who fought for many years to make the African slave trade illegal. It explores some of the details about how African people were treated during the slave trade and the attitude of rich white people. The film follows William as he presents a bill to the house of commons to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. He is defeated and considers leaving politics. After 20 years of fighting and with the support of his friend William Pitt, (who was currently the prime minister) his wife and John Newton (a former slave ship captain) the bill was passed in 1907 and the slave trade is aboslished forever in the whole British Empire. This film shows the colonial attitude of a lot of british citizens who thought of black Africans as subaltern. The film also helps to reflect how the british colonialists thought they were superior and they should own slaves as property, they did not view them as humans but rather animals. They thought because britain was more developed in technology and civilisation that blacks deserved to serve them and work for them in order to become more developed.