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Article: Elizabethan Appropriation of Irish Culture: Spenser's Theory vs. Lee's Practice.(Edmund Spenser, Thomas Lee)
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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A central premise of much postcolonial theorizing is that colonizers need subjects because colonizers can define themselves only by defining and opposing an "Other." A related premise is that members of European colonizing cultures were and are incapable of understanding their subjects because a major component in European culture is the idea that European identity is superior to that of non-European people and cultures. Recently, however, the assumption that all colonizers accord with this pattern has been challenged, and at least one influential critic, Edward Said, now acknowledges that select members of colonizing cultures may both understand and adopt cultural ...
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