Post-colonialism
Provide a close reading of Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” with the post-colonial approach and consider the following questions:
• How does the work reflect on its historical and cultural context through characters, events, and language?
• How does a literary text represent marginalized peoples (usually, the colonized)?
• What are the power relations between dominant and marginalized that it explores?
How does it explore the co-dependency of the dominant and marginalized?
• How are colonialist ideologies reinforced or challenged in the text?