Word: colonialist
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British philanthropist and colonialist Cecil B. Rhodes provided the money for the annual award in his will...
...photographs of Sevruguin are particularly relevant right now because of the prevalence of post-colonialist studies in academia. If a Persian made women seem passive and highly sexual, whose fault is that? How can we say he was purposefully promoting a Western ideal if he was not Western? Sevruguin's photographs, besides being diverse and stunning images, add a new dimension to the often oversimplified academic dialogue in the post-colonial...
...embankments above drainage ditches. A few wheeled bikes as if on their way to work, others merely glanced past the electrified fence surrounding the airport at the jet emblazoned with the words United States of America - a name they had only heard in conjunction with words like "imperialist" and "colonialist...
...novel is radically unfinished; Maumort never gets past the narrative of his childhood and young adulthood. The defining events of his life--his career as a soldier and colonialist in Morocco, his reaction to the Dreyfus affair and the death of his father--are only alluded to. Had there been time enough, du Gard's work would have been a complete study of a man's life, an exhaustive critique of human limitation and liability. However, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort is a testament to care. Du Gard took extreme pains to represent the times he wrote about. Trained...
...this "updating" cleverly defuses the touchiest issue inherent in The Mikado: Gilbert and Sullivan's mythicized Japan is based in large part on condescending and underinformed Victorian colonialist views of the Far East--and, while nobody really wants to point the finger of accusation at the most beloved of English musical comedians, the fact is that the authors' presentation of other nations and peoples were often less than politically correct. (After all, some of the original lyrics to "I've Got a Little List" would make modern audiences' ears burn). Contemporary productions of the play often transfer the setting...