There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions. In our world today there are a variety of...
First, I will give a short definition of the terms ‘Short Story’ and ‘Essay’. This is to show the characteristics of the two genres that I will pick up again in the course of this paper. After a brief summary I will start the analysis of the text working out topics like ...
The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad: Writing, Culture, and Subjectivity. By Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. x + 191 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's `Heart of Darkness'. By Peter Edgerly Fir...
Jameson includes the majority of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in his definition of the “third world.” Although the classification of what falls into the category of “third-world” has been vigorously contested, this definition gives me an explanation of how allegory is used by Mont...
Chapter one compares two approaches to the definition of Jewish writing???Jewish communal and literary-professional???in anthologies edited by Harold U. Ribalow (This Land, These People, 1950) and Saul Bellow (Great Jewish Stories, 1963). Chapter two examines Tillie Olsen???s enlistment of ...
While some of these thirty poems deal with thelandscape and folkways of contemporary Filipinos, others locatethemselves on the streets and byways of present-day America. Likemany poets of dual heritage, Gloria's work is concerned withself-definition, with the attempt to reconcile a feeling of ...
Playing the role of the Dalit liberator, Amar Jaleel, in fact, defines the Ashrafia definition of Dalit women's oppression. Colored in Sufi nationalist ideology of interfaith harmony, Jaleel condescends to take Sayed Patriarchy and misogyny to the task that does not help invoke Dalit women's ...