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Orwell and Empire (Hardcover)
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Orwell and Empire (Hardcover)
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Considers George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence
of the East in his writing. George Orwell was born in India and
served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Orwell and
Empire is a study of his writing about the East and the East in his
writing. It argues that empire was central to his cultural identity
and that his experience of colonial life was a crucial factor, in
ways that have not been recognized, in shaping the writer he
became. Orwell and Empire is about all his writings, fictional and
non-fictional. It pays particular attention to work that derives
directly from his Burmese years including the well-known narratives
'A Hanging' and 'Shooting an Elephant' and his first novel Burmese
Days. It goes on to explore the theme of empire throughout his
work, through to Nineteen Eighty-Four and beyond, and charts the
way his evolving views on class, race, gender, and authority were
shaped by his experience in the East and the Anglo-Indian attitudes
he had inherited. Orwell's socialism and his hatred of
authoritarianism grew out of his anti-imperialism as The Road to
Wigan Pier makes explicit. But this was not a straightforward
repudiation or a painless process. He understood that, 'it is very
difficult to escape, culturally, from the class into which you have
been born.' His whole career was a creative quarrel with himself
and with his Anglo-Indian patrimony. In a way that anticipates
current debates about the imperial legacy, he struggled to come to
terms with his own history.
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