Questioning the Binaries between the Civilized and Uncivilized

The article studies, from a feminist standpoint, the justification of the alleged notions of binary oppositions set between the civilized (European) and uncivilized (non-European) worlds based on Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood (1977). Britain...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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