标题：A Postcolonial Reading of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant With Special Reference to Edward Said’s Orientalism and Binary of the Self and the Other
摘要：Edward Said in his groundbreaking work Orientalism, which later becomes a bible for Postcolonialists, elucidates how the Western scholars, writers, scientists, philologists, administrators among others take it for granted the binary distinction between the West and its Other. He underscores the special place of the Orient in the Western canon. The arbitrary and fabricated line between the Self (Occident) and the Other(Orient) in which the former is privileged and grasps the upper hand to define, reconstruct andre-present the latter, comes at the center of Postcolonialism. Orwell as a Western writer with firsthand experience -he was born in India and served as a cog in British imperial machine for five years-never managed to disconnect wholeheartedly with his deep imperial roots. One of Orwell’s major concerns during his life was the issue of imperialism and colonialism which is reflected in many works such as Burmese Days , Shooting an Elephant , Marrakech , and Hanging . One characteristic which is shared among these works is the author’s conflicting feelings within them about the Orient and Orientals from European’s lens. In this study, the relationship between the representer or Westerners and the represented or Easterners is expounded in Shooting an Elephant according to Said’s Orientalism.
其他摘要：Edward Said in his groundbreaking work Orientalism, which later becomes a bible for Postcolonialists, elucidates how the Western scholars, writers, scientists, philologists, administrators among others take it for granted the binary distinction between the West and its Other. He underscores the special place of the Orient in the Western canon. The arbitrary and fabricated line between the Self (Occident) and the Other(Orient) in which the former is privileged and grasps the upper hand to define, reconstruct andre-present the latter, comes at the center of Postcolonialism. Orwell as a Western writer with firsthand experience -he was born in India and served as a cog in British imperial machine for five years-never managed to disconnect wholeheartedly with his deep imperial roots. One of Orwell’s major concerns during his life was the issue of imperialism and colonialism which is reflected in many works such as Burmese Days , Shooting an Elephant , Marrakech , and Hanging . One characteristic which is shared among these works is the author’s conflicting feelings within them about the Orient and Orientals from European’s lens. In this study, the relationship between the representer or Westerners and the represented or Easterners is expounded in Shooting an Elephant according to Said’s Orientalism.
关键词：Postcolonialism;Edward Said;Orientalism;Orwell;the Self and the Other;Shooting an Elephant
