HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Edward Said, Intellectual, Postcolonialism
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She has the straight black eyebrows, the glossy black hair of the barbarians. (25) It is the same girl, the same black hair cut in a fringe across the forehead, the same broad mouth, the black eyes (26) Settlers" litany of prejudice: that barbarians are lazy, immoral, filthy, stupid. (38) I tell myself that she submits because of her barbarian upbringing. But what do i know of barbarian upbringings? (56: unable to get away from empire"s beliefs, however, he is questioning himself. Languages page 71 starting with can you see them? to the gun resting between the pony"s ears still points at me crossing a boundary of the empire. Someone gives me a push and i begin to float back and forth in an arc a foot above the ground like a great old moth with its wings pinched together, roaring, shouting. He is calling his barbarian friends," someone observes.
