Outline the most important aspects of the relationship between colonialism and literature as suggested by the key readings.

AbstractIn this 400 word report, I will demonstrate, with quotes, how each of the three authors traces the relationship between the written word and the colonial expansion of the west. I will provide supporting or dissenting ( Read more... )

Today in my "Post-colonial" literature paper we had a whole-class debate on "Is Joseph Conrad, in the words of Chinua Achebe, a 'bloody racist ( Read more... )

I've been able to read for some twenty odd years now. I had some basic skills already when I started school, but we started school at 6 in South Africa (and since I did not go to school for the year of 1989, and finished at the age of 17, I have had slightly less schooling than some of my contemporaries.) Since a very early age, my reading habits ( Read more... )