ACCT 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Phaswane Mpe, Nadine Gordimer, Zakes Mda
9 Aug 2020
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The internationalization of english" literature: the empire writes back" new" english literatures, settler colonies, colonies of exploitation. Africa: black british writing, the empire writes back" new" english literatures. Reexamines canonical english texts and rewrites those texts. Jean rhys, wide sargasso sea (1966) e. g. jane ayre. She was set to marry a man but a lawyer stand up during the wedding and says that mr. Rochester is already married to a woman from the caribbean. So this book is written from the perspective of the first wife of mr. rochester, claiming that it is only natural she has gone mad since she was taken from her home and family: settler colonies. All commonwealth countries have a background of exploitation. In the settler countries the white population usually rises very fast which goes hand in hand with a decline in native population. It is only natural that english literature arises there e. g. : south africa. Was first dutch, then english, then dutch.
