HUMAN 1AS Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Postcolonialism, Morality
24 Jan 2018
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The older a man the more grotesque people find his couplings like the spasms of a dying animal . Waiting for the barbarians -> shows the theory on empire. Theories - doesn"t have to provable, begins to explain smth. Fiction but has a historical decade and a certain setting. How does it portray places under imperial domination. Raises questions about how the book is actual portraying things. Has power in the outpost but his position of power comes into question. Magistrate - rome, legal authority, local rulers. 14th century - referring to term ppl who didnt speak same language. Idea of empire - an influence on orientalism. The framing of a difference is linked to questions of dominance. How knowledge is produced, how things are represented. Orientalism - in relation to at one point a work of study. Major influence in literary studies and postcolonialism. Not a set of lies but a way of thinking.
