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Arinze Walters _ — I loved the endearing complexities of Little Bee, a beautiful character sharing her brutal story, victim of the inevitable fallout of the vicious oil wars in Nigeria. The writer paints a swath of tension and fear from page one and never puts it down. A compelling yet difficult read. Spoiler alert: There is a brutal rape scene in this book which could be a show stopper for some. Beware.

Chloe Hutton chloehutton — In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said argues that much of western culture have been historically implicated in the Western project of empire-building. Said concentrates on literary texts, particularly the novel, to expound on this connection. While some novels may not directly call for the subjugation of foreign peoples or distant territories, these texts nonetheless refers to these colonizing ventures as pre-given or ideal. Reactionary notions of inferior “Others” as well as the acquisition of colonies are presented as part of the natural order of things and are therefore legitimized. In Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for instance, to cite some of the works surveyed by Said, “references to the protagonist’s colonial possessions give him his wealth, occasion his absences, fix his social status at home and abroad, and make possible his values.” The colonial order, the novel thus suggests to its readers, provides the condition of possibility for domestic wealth and bliss. In Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, an Indian Businessman and a Caribbean wife living in England are depicted as social undesirables. Wealth from the Australian penal colony meanwhile makes Pip’s Great Expectations possible in Charles Dickens’ novel. And of course, the aboriginal Friday becomes the dutiful servant of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Other novels, especially by the likes of Joseph Conrad or Rudyard Kipling (of “The White Man’s Burden” fame) have been less concealing of the imperialist bent in their works. The Latin Americas, Africa, and Asia, in these narratives are imagined to be uninhabited lands of milk and honey, the home of exotic peoples ready for plunder and adventure, or the domain of primitive barbarians that should be civilized. From A Modest Proposal: Ban All Those Books!

Tatiana Tatiana tatoodiaz17 — Great summer read with historical details. If you travel to Cape Cod year after year as I do, you'll enjoy reading this.