Postcolonialism Criticism/Reader-Response Criticism/Gender and Queer Studies

Postcolonialism Criticism
- Drawing from post-modern schools of thought, Post-colonial Studies analyse the politics of knowledge (creation, control, and distribution) by analyzing the functional relations of social and political power that sustain colonialism and neo-colonialism — the how and the why of an imperial régime’s representations (social, political, cultural) of the imperial colonizer and of the colonized people.

Reader-Response Criticism
- Reader-response theory recognizes the reader as an active agent who imparts "real existence" to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation. Reader-response criticism argues that literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each reader creates their own, possibly unique, text-related performance. It stands in total opposition to the theories of formalism and the New Criticism, in which the reader's role in re-creating literary works is ignored.

Gender and Queer Studies
-  For example, gender studies and queer theory maintains that cultural definitions of sexuality and what it means to be male and female are in flux: "...the distinction between "masculine" and "feminine" activities and behavior is constantly changing, so that women who wear baseball caps and fatigues...can be perceived as more piquantly sexy by some heterosexual men than those women who wear white frocks and gloves and look down demurely" (Richter 1437).



Postcolonialism and Jane Eyre(Sue Thomas): 

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/40347124?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=jane&searchText=eyre&searchText=postcolonialism&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Djane%2Beyre%2Bpostcolonialism%26amp%3Bprq%3Djane%2Beyre%26amp%3Bhp%3D25%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bso%3Drel%26amp%3Bracc%3Doff