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P.D. James’ ‘Death Comes to Pemberley’:
Snobbery with violence
Despite her own origins in a country vicarage,
her consistently satiric treatment of social snobs such as Sir
Walter Elliot (of Persuasion) and Emma Woodhouse in the novel that
bears her name, and her sturdy refusal to draw her heroines from the
upper ranks of British nobility so much beloved of the women
novelists of her time,
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Encounters:
Richard Wright and the Third World
[Part 1]
A few weeks ago, I discussed the importance of
Toni Morrison as a contemporary African-American author who captured
the black experience in important ways. Today I wish to discuss the
writings of Richard Wright (1908-1960), an African-American writer
of an earlier generation who paved the way for the emergence of
contemporary African-American literature.
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Cultural scene:
Revisiting Orientalism:
Text and the reality
Continuing the series, in this week’s column we
explore the difference between the Orientalism in text and emerging
reality in the Orient. Edward Said explores the important aspect of
textual attitude in the chapter entitled ‘Crisis’ in Orientalism.
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