Book Analysis6 Summary/Notes of Homi Bhabha's "Mimicry and Man" Bhabha elaborates on how the subjects of a colonial state adopt a new culture and ways of life, and ends up imitating the colonizer in a way that is almost identical. This exposes the desire of the colonizer to reform the colonized to become like the colonizer, but using a way that still preserves a clear sense of difference. The colonizer's biggest fear is the disappearing of this difference an.. 2025. 2. 21. “The Institutional Matrix: Publishing Romantic Fiction” Janice Radway’s book Reading the Romance depicts her study of a group of women in Smithton that read romances because they find reading as “a legitimate way of denying a present reality that occasionally becomes too onerous to bear” (“Women Read the Romance” 200). On the surface, it may seem these women are trying to find comfort in a fantasy world with a masculine plot, but Radway points out th.. 2023. 6. 17. Book/Play Review: Tennessee Williams’ "The Glass Menagerie" (1944) The Dysfunctional Family and Destruction of Hope in The Glass Menagerie Introduction: The American Dream and Great Depression After the first world war, America enjoyed the rising capitalism with many new developments in industry and technology. The Roaring Twenties started off the engine of the American dream, where people of all classes enjoyed materialistic prosperity (Sternheimer 21). In 193.. 2022. 3. 14. Book/Play Review: August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" Theatrical Scenery and Property in Miss Julie August Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1888) is a naturalistic play which highlights more on the human psychology instead of a complicated plotline. Strindberg did not want to depict his characters as fixed beings, but rather viewed them as “conglomerates of past and present cultural phases, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, pieces torn fr.. 2022. 2. 8. 이전 1 2 다음 728x90 반응형
