POST-COLONIAL THEORY PART THREE: EDWARD SAID (1935-2003) Orientalism Perhaps the most influential and widely read Post-Colonial critic was the late Edward Said (1935 – 2003) a Palestinian intellectual who was born in Jerusalem and died in exile in America. ...
WHAT IS “QUEER?” “Queer” was once an insulting term of scorn and distaste applied to homosexuals and the aggressive appropriation of this term by the homosexual community as a defiant positive identification signaled a change from the meaning of the term...
CREATING HOMOSEXUALITY “Chick equals nigger equals queer. Think it over.” Unattributed quote Homosexuality In his 1980s series of books on human (mostly male) sexuality, the French...
Early Nineteenth Century Utopian Philosophy The largest issue of the second half of the nineteenth century was the containment of people. The problem of how to control a growing population in Europe and an alien population in colonized lands occupied the...
