![]() Those in bold come from the book, those in plain text are available for download in the Readings section of the site. On the course schedule page you will find a list of all of our readings. The readings for the course will be found in our one course book, The Best American Essays, 2008, edited by Adam Gopnik, or here on this website. Since I will ask you to revisit many of the essays with specific prompts in mind, and since we will also workshop student pieces that will only become available near the start of the class, students should also plan on 1-2 hours of reading before each class during the week. Before the first day of class students must read all the assigned essays. ![]() In order to do so much in a short space of time, everyone will need to prepare considerably. We will discuss almost 20 accomplished essays, try out some of their techniques in in-class exercises, and workshop short pieces of your own writing. In this study, the relationship between the representer or Westerners and the represented or Easterners is expounded in Shooting an Elephant according to Said’s Orientalism.This is an intensive seminar, and we will do a lot in one week. One characteristic which is shared among these works is the author’s conflicting feelings within them about the Orient and Orientals from European’s lens. One of Orwell’s major concerns during his life was the issue of imperialism and colonialism which is reflected in many works such as Burmese Days, Shooting an Elephant, Marrakech, and Hanging. Orwell as a Western writer with firsthand experience -he was born in India and served as a cog in British imperial machine for five years-never managed to disconnect wholeheartedly with his deep imperial roots. The arbitrary and fabricated line between the Self (Occident) and the Other(Orient) in which the former is privileged and grasps the upper hand to define, reconstruct andre-present the latter, comes at the center of Postcolonialism. He underscores the special place of the Orient in the Western canon. It also humbly approaches to refute Barry Hindess' arguments supporting neoimperialism.Įdward Said in his groundbreaking work Orientalism, which later becomes a bible for Postcolonialists, elucidates how the Western scholars, writers, scientists, philologists, administrators among others take it for granted the binary distinction between the West and its Other. In this regard, it studies his revealing short story "Shooting an Elephant". We discover the seeds of imperialism under the mask of anti-imperialism. Here, we discover the inevitable dilemma in a disguised imperialist. This paper, I believe, will lead us to an almost different conclusion. George Orwell is popularly known to be an anti-imperialist writer. Through dominance with these, they have been, to a great extent, successful in establishing their racial and cultural superiority. But the ultimate objective has remained the same-to rule and exploit the natives with their multifaceted dominance-technological, economic and military. Throughout the period, the imperialists have changed their grounds and strategies in imperialistic rules. ![]() The world has moved from the colonial to post-colonial era or neoimperialism. Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over last four or five centuries.
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