Things She Said

In the novel, Santos introduces the fences and forces the llaneros to reject their resistance to civilized changes because “Santos Luzardo arrives in the llanos as the bearer of modernity” (Henighan 31). For example, when Santos is talking to the local plainsmen and they both agree that a fence would not do any harm to the daily life and ultimately each promised to erect a fence: “Y como no podía ser todo para ambos, se convino en que sería nada, y cada cual se comprometió a levantar una cerca…

scholars and their work on the Orient. Said discusses the knowledge and power, the separation of the West and East, and the obsession with the Orient. In his works he analyzes many scholars, political leaders, and military leaders justify his argument. Because Said’s work attacked years of scholarly work done by what he calls Orientalist, he received many criticisms, which would then tear apart his book just as he did. One of the larger points that Edward Said discussed was the idea of…

influenced by Western post-structuralist theorists notably, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. His theory is expounded in his books, Nation and Narration (1990) and The Location of Culture (1994). He, a diasporic person like Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak has popularized postcolonial theory by giving new terms such as, Hybridity, Mimicry, The other, etc. to it. His contribution to postcolonial studies is noteworthy…

was closely related to knowledge and power in so far as the process of mapping the ‘other spaces ‘ was deployed to reproduce dominant world view. While the tenants of imperialism are teleological, its practices have always been geographic. As Edward said argues in Culture and Imperialism: If there is anything that radically distinguishes the imagination of anti-imperialism, it is the primacy of geographical element. Imperialism after all is an act of geographical violence through which…

He suggests that since U. S. leaders have the power, they think that it gives them an inherent right to employ it on others. With this said, he says that empires do not just pursue power for power’s sake, but in fact that we are interested in gaining from them. Often times, countries perceived as poor and weak are actually quite rich with product and market but the people in the countries…

This book offers an explanation of Edward Said 's evaluation of contemporary society by stressing the religious/secular division. Hart argues that this division is equally factual and metaphorical: It addresses spiritual and worldly customs, but also allegories that broaden the connotation and position of faith and secularism in an undetermined manner. Incorporating reviews and critiques of Said will help me present a rounded, unbiased view of his work within my dissertation. In this article,…

“An Ant Enclosed in a Circle”: The function of space and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night “However, I cannot escape myself, and being a narrator who also existed on the periphery of the events, in am bound to be present. I have my own laments and much to tell about myself. It is my intent, however, to refrain from inserting myself too forcefully.” This is a quote from the character Tyler in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. This shows Tyler’s character in his conscious…

This paper deals with the travel narratives and to what extent they fall in the category of Orientalist discourse, that Edward Said criticizes. Basically on the way travel narratives have described the Middle East and to what extent they were partial to the origins as Easterners. Edward Said states his interest on the Orientalism when he discovered the big difference between the Middle East where he lived and grew and the image of the Middle East in the eyes of the Eastern. Before he…

Tiffin makes a comparative study of the use of colonial motifs in The Cat and Shakespeare and The Double Hook. In her comments on Rao’s book, she says that both the title and the concerns of the novel points at a political purpose is jumbled up with a philosophical theme. Further in the course of her article, she asks whether the book can be called a postcolonial text. Because it displays that “the community, its beliefs and rituals are in no sense disrupted by the history of British colonialism…

By means of arranging intertextual approaches, Rushdie has problematized postmodernist representational systems of the West, specifically, its colonial and imperial discourse. Besides, his novels are interested in the study of Eastern cultural traditions and history, particularly those of India and Pakistan. As a postcolonialist writer, Rushdie attempts to deconstruct the colonial historical account of the colonizer and subvert it through the creation of another explanations and accounts. The…