From colonizers' perspective, colonization amounts to a civilizing mission. Quarreling with the s... more From colonizers' perspective, colonization amounts to a civilizing mission. Quarreling with the so-called philanthropic civilizing mission advanced to support the system, Lamming debunks the self-proclaimed civilizing claims through unearthing numerous, multilayered, complex, and self-centered motives behind the system in Natives of My Person. This essay argues, through the prism of reader-response criticism, that by unveiling the manifold driving forces behind colonialism, this novelist undermines its civilizing claims and reduces its so-called philanthropy to an immoral exploitation.
From colonizers' perspective, colonization amounts to a civilizing mission. Quarreling with the s... more From colonizers' perspective, colonization amounts to a civilizing mission. Quarreling with the so-called philanthropic civilizing mission advanced to support the system, Lamming debunks the self-proclaimed civilizing claims through unearthing numerous, multilayered, complex, and self-centered motives behind the system in Natives of My Person. This essay argues, through the prism of reader-response criticism, that by unveiling the manifold driving forces behind colonialism, this novelist undermines its civilizing claims and reduces its so-called philanthropy to an immoral exploitation.
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