File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0205, message 184


Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 00:29:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: chemicalis <chemicalis-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Personification of Colonialism


rebecca,
an Egyptian writer-Taha Hussein-  wrote a
controversial book (The Future of Culture in
Egypt,1938) stating that Egypt should be part of the
West and should follow its model. 



--- "rebecca.fenton-AT-excite.com"
<rebecca.fenton-AT-excite.com> wrote:
>  Can anyone think of any examples of novels where a
> person from a colonised (or once colonised) place
> has gone to the colonising (or formerly colonising)
> country, and where their
> impressions/observations/etc have created something
> like a personification/personality profile of the
> coloniser?
> 
> Also, can anyone recommend non-fiction works of the
> same type  ie essays etc that seek to personify
> colonialism or the colonial/neo-colonial power?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rebecca
> 
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