that grapple with the legacy of colonial rule. In this sense‚ postcolonial literature may be considered a branch of postmodern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. Edward Said‚ a founding figure in post-colonialism‚ was known best for his book Orientalism (1978). The book has been highly influential in postcolonial studies and presented his influential ideas on Orientalism‚ the Western study of Eastern cultures. Post-colonial
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always‚ in Said‚ the suggestion that colonial power is possessed entirely by the colonizer which is a historical and theoretical simplification" (200). He asserted that colonization is not just a conscious body of knowledge (Said’s manifest Orientalism) but also the "unconscious positivity" of fantasy and desire (Bhabha’s latent Orientalism) (Young‚ "White Mythologies" 181). Bhabha used that vantage point — of liminal spaces — to study the phenomenon of cultural translation in his essay "How Newness
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Cited: Brooke‚ Tucker and Mason‚ Lawrence‚ ed. The Tragedy of Othello. USA: Yale University Press‚ 1947. Edward‚ Said. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books‚ 1979. Leonard‚ F. Dean‚ ed. A Casebook on Othello. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company‚ 1961. Elmer‚ Edgar Stoll. Art and Artifice in Shakespeare. London: Cambridge University Press‚ 1938. [pic]
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“Consolidated vision” from culture and imperialism: It is an essay by Edward said published in 1993.Said tries to follow the relation between the culture and the imperialism during the last three centuries.This eassy influenced by his previous book Orinentlism‚ published in 1987. Said convinces the impact of dominant culture basically the British writers of the 19th and 20th century‚ for example‚ Rudyard Kipling and Jane Austen on imperialism and colonialism throughout three novels. He defines
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general themes of postcolonial writing‚ however‚ there is ongoing debate regarding the meaning of post colonialism. Many critics now propose that the term should be expanded to include the literatures of Canada‚ the United States‚ and Australia. In his essay discussing the nature and boundaries of post colonialism‚ Simon During argues for a more inclusive definition‚ calling it “the need‚ in nations‚ or groups which have been victims of imperialism to achieve an identity uncontaminated by universalist
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between the powerful and the powerless. Postcolonial theory‚ often said to begin with the work of Edward W. Said‚ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak‚ and Homi K. Bhabha‚ looks at literature and society from two broad angles: how the writer‚ artist‚ cultural worker‚ and his or her context reflects a colonial past. These theorists also look at how they survive and carve out a new way of creating and understanding the world. Edward Said was instrumental in the transfer of colonial discourse into the first
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of postmodern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. Many practitioners take Edward Said’s book Orientalism (1978) to be the theory’s founding work; although French theorist Aimé Césaire made similar claims decades before Said.” Wikipedia states that Edward Said analyzed the works of postcolonial fictional writers exploring how they were both influenced by and helped to shape a societal fantasy of European racial superiority
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in A Passage to India Abstract: E. M. Forster is one of the most outstanding British writers in the early twentieth century. His novel A Passage to India was published in 1924 and it aroused much criticism at the time. With the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978)‚ this novel has been reinterpreted from a new prospective —— Orientalist criticism. Applying Orientalist criticism‚ this paper intends to reveal Forster’s double angles of view and give an analysis of the novel’s main Indian
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“Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires and that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate” is a quote by Edward W. Said. During the 19th century‚ Western nations started expansion into territorial imperialism to collect resources from colonies to benefit economically‚ politically‚ and socially. Jules Ferry‚ a former French prime minister‚ created a colonial policy to colonize territories for France’s benefits and to civilize the people
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Print. Camus‚ Albert. “The Guest”. Exile and the Kingdom. Trans. Carol Cosman. United States: Vintage‚ 2007. 67- 86. Print. Cosman‚ Carol. Introduction. Exile and the Kingdom. By Albert Camus. United States: Vintage‚ 2007. XV- XXIV. Print. Said‚ Edward. “From Orientalism”. Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory. Ed. Patrick Williams‚ and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia UP‚ 1994. 132- 149. Print.
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