ABSTRACT
Foucault’s concept of power and its working in a complex process for the formation of identity and the mobilization of resistance has been of paramount interest over the years to individuals and groups located in unfavorable positions in power-relations. That knowledge and power work together in an exclusionary formation signified in the concept of discourse have inspired feminists and theorists of colonial and post-colonial studies to rework discourse theories to map out new identities and programs of resistance. Although Foucault’s ideas are appropriated by critical schools for various reasons, such appropriation still requires a measure of clarification, since there is no unified position among the schools themselves. In this paper, We, therefore, attempt to show how themes of exclusion, identity, and resistance-very seminal to Foucault’s critical oeuvre, are received and modified by feminist thinkers and theorists of colonial and post-colonial studies.
Keywords: Discourse, Exclusion, Resistance, Narrative, Homogenization, Feminism, and Reification.
Citation: Faysal YA., and Rahman MM. (2021). Impact of foucauldian discourse on Feminism and postcolonial studies, Br. J. Arts Humanit., 3(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.34104/bjah.021010wf10
