English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1723 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Writing Back: Rewriting the Classics
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The idea
The phrase "the empire writes back," from a nineteen eighty-nine book by Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, names postcolonial writing that answers the colonial centre. Critics re-read The Tempest, Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park, Kim and Heart of Darkness, and writers rewrote such texts.
In practice
The colonized answer the canon.
Where people slip
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