the coloniser will always go back to privileging their own experience
'theory is a bias' - De Raedt
despite the 'ethnographic' label, or the claims toward honest description, etc. etc., colonial literature will always serve a purpose, and that is colonialism.
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While the surface of each colonialist text purports to represent specific encounters with specific varieties of the racial Other, the subtext valorizes the superiority of European cultures, of the collective process that has mediated that representation (JanMohamed 1995, 19)
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instead of seeing the native as a bridge toward syncretic possibility, it uses him as a mirror that reflects the colonialistβs self-image.(p. 2)
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