Tempest and "On Cannibals" have something to say to the emerging modern world order of the 16th century about non-Western peoples. What is Shakespeare trying to say about such peoples through the character of Caliban? What is Montaigne trying to say Continue Reading...
Non-Western Societies Tempest and of Cannibals The idea that Europeans brought enlightenment to the savage colonies has always fascinated modern writers so much so that many of them employed their imagination to create pictures of 'barbaric' indivi Continue Reading...
All without distinction were branded as fanatics and phantasts; not only those, whose wild and exorbitant imaginations had actually engendered only extravagant and grotesque phantasms, and whose productions were, for the most part, poor copies and g Continue Reading...
biases present in our culture that encourage those whose primary culture is rooted in Western civilization to view their culture as the most significant and important one. It calls this view "Eurocentric," and gives many, many examples of how Euroce Continue Reading...
