Culture and Imperialism
The empire sitting quietly in the background of novels about something else entirely.
The sequel to Orientalism turns to the novel, reading Austen, Conrad and Kipling for the empire sitting quietly in the background of books that are ostensibly about something else. Said’s second argument is about resistance: the literatures that answered back.
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