Rewriting Europe: Carey's Jack Maggs and Malouf's remembering Babylon

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publisher

Rodopi

Place of Publication

New York

Editor(s)

Borg Barthet, S.

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Arts

School

School of Communications and Contemporary Arts / Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts,Technology, Education and Communications

RAS ID

9575

Comments

Vanden Driesen, C.(2009) Rewriting Europe: Carey's Jack Maggs and Malouf's remembering Babylon. In Borg Barthet, S.(Eds.).Hjorth, L., & Chan, D. A sea for encounters : essays towards a postcolonial Commonwealth ( pp 307-322). New York: Rodopi.

Abstract

WE ARE ALL TOO FAMILIAR with the rhetoric of Imperialism typified by Kipling's impassioned exhortation to the White Man to take up his burden: the obligation to civilize the colonized peoples of the world as a divinely ordered destiny. The granthose scale on which the superiority of European culture was vaunted is nowhere better illustrated than in Ruskin's invocation to British youth:

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