this is a topic that concerns IDENTITY and REPRESENTATION.
Empire and Colonialism.
Edward Said – ‘the privileged role of culture in the modern imperial experience’ + ‘an economic system like a nation or a religion, lives not by bread alone, but by beliefs, visions, daydreams as well, and these may be no less vital to it for being erroneous’
POSTCOLONIALISM operates a series of signs maintaining the European-Atlantic power over the Orient by creating ‘an accepted grid for filtering through the Orient into Western consciousness‘.
