Mixed Representation of the "Other" in Orwell's Burmese Days
| dc.contributor.author | Parajuli, Rajan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-23T05:31:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-23T05:31:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Colonial discourses have created various images to represent the Eastern countries and people as the 'Other'. It establishes a created form of reality in the readers' mind. It functions as a power to dominate, educate and govern over the non-western countries. George Orwell's Burmese Daystextualizes the mixed representation–the mixed attitudes of the author–of Burma and Burmese people. Orwell has partially expressed his love-hate attitudes towards the native Burmese and the white imperialists through his characters. He has readjusted the paradigm of center and margin by creating central position to the white Europeans and by marginalizing the native Burmese people as the 'other'. In this sense, the novel shows how Orwell detested imperialism and the native people as well. It also reveals his colonial mentality i.e., how he shares the sense of superiority as the white race. Besides, he presents the white characters as superior beings and the black Indians as helpless and worthless inferior beings. So through these mixed representations of Burmese people, Orwell tries to justify the mission of colonization as the mission of civilization. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/9344 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of English | en_US |
| dc.subject | Colonial discourse | en_US |
| dc.subject | English novel | en_US |
| dc.title | Mixed Representation of the "Other" in Orwell's Burmese Days | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| local.academic.level | Masters | en_US |
| local.institute.title | Central Department of English | en_US |