M.C.Mengüç 🗻🏔⛰🌋 · @mcmenguc
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(That other website is down, and I'd like to keep a record of this somewhere, so I can go back to it.)

I'd argue that 's " and " is quite pedagogical in weaving in both and description and (and other kinds of ).

What's peculiar about it is that he is being defensive: he will be linking a beloved, canonical author (Jane Austen) with a violent, execrable history of domination, so he better back up not only what he is saying, but also what he is doing. To do that, he anchors in a careful reading of the . To say that is not about may be right, but while colonialism "is ... incidental, referred to only in passing" (so you need to read carefully to notice), it is also "absolutely crucial to the action" (so you should want to parse it if you want to get the novel).

#thread #edwardsaid #JaneAusten #empire #textualanalysis #culturalhistory #history #context #text #mansfieldpark #colonialism

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