COLONIALISM AND GENDER
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
SOURCE: "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1, Autumn, 1985, pp. 243-61.
[In the following essay, Spivak examines Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Frankenstein to reveal the manner in which imperialist ideology structures the expression of nineteenth-century feminist individualism.]
It should not be possible to read nineteenth-century British literature without remembering that imperialism, understood as England's social...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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