Colonialist literature criticism serves as imperial propaganda on multiple fronts
Evidence
My objective is to demonstrate how with one strike Nafisi has provided this cause with three services, on both the home and battle fronts: (1) denigrating an entire culture of revolutionary resistance to colonialism; (2) advancing the cultural foregrounding of US imperialism; and (3) catering to recalcitrant forces within the United States who are waging war against immigrant communities seeking curricular recognition in the humanities and social sciences. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 123
Related
- A single memoir could serve empire, denigrate a culture, and attack campus multiculturalism. (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.79)
- Teaching literature historically consolidated British and American imperial power (similarity 0.79)