Status Updates From Culture and Imperialism

very excellent introduction and i’m glad i’m reading this now.

Damn, I should add Rudyard Kipling's Kim to my reading list this summer

Whoa. My brain hurts but I'm so glad this is easier than Orientalism

a standard imperialist misrepresentation has it that exclusively Western ideas of freedom led the fight against the colonial rule, which mischievously overlooks the reserves in Indian and Arab culture that always resisted imperialism, and claims the fight against imperialism as one of imperialism’s major triumphs

-The literary form of the novel relates directly to imperialism
-2 def for Culture: aesthetic independent from social, political and economic (no way, right?) and basically "good taste" as per the European standard.
-Focusing on Great Expectations and Nostromo
-Imperialist like to appear as benevolent, and it is what today became modern-day globalization
-France, USA, Brits
-contrapuntal reading and hybridity