Ghosts in the mirror: colonialism and Creole indeterminacy in Bronte and Sand.
| Publisher | West Chester University |
| Publication | College Literature |
| Subject | Education |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0093-3139 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2002-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Charlotte Bronte |
| Author | n/a | H. Adlai Murdoch |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | George Sand |
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The colonial encounter raises myriad possibilities for reinscribing the terms of subjectivity in the post-colonial condition. Issues of alienation, difference and desire framed the imperial will to conquest, at the pinnacle of the colonial project in the mid-nineteenth century. Despite their differences, both France and Britain as European colonial powers came to represent the Creole as the unnamable third term, the impossible indeterminacy excluded by the colonial binary's neither/nor dyad. Because discursive form provided the key to authority and control over a myriad of...
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