Abstract: Since the past few decades ‘culture’ has become a ‘playing ball’ for the literary and cultural critics. Everyone tries his hands on it in a different way and still it seems similar. For some it’s a way of life and for others, it’s still a way of life. But this way of life differs at the level of political boundaries; that is state wise or nation wise. Every nation has a culture of its own what Frantz Fanon called the ‘national culture.’ This paper deals with the theme of national culture as a form of resistance. Culture is a mechanism of perpetuating survival on the earth in every human society. But since the concept of power and dominion emerged into the human psyche, the ‘national culture,’ we may say a sub-category of culture, has become a form of survival and resisting the invading forces. Earlier the invaders were the western colonists and nowadays they are again the Westerns, if not literally colonists, but ideological invaders. The proposed paper will further look into the problems of how the technological advancement has expanded and extended the western domination all across the globe. And how the ‘national culture,’ can play a significant role to deconstruct this western hegemony; of the so-called ‘being civilized’ and globalization.
Keywords: National Culture, Colonialism, Western, Domination.
Title: National Culture: The Force to Resist and Perpetuate The Survival
Author: Kumar, Ravinder
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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