Their historical resistance to colonialism, their debate with the secularists, their rejection of the West (in a repulsion-attraction relationship), the legitimacy derived from their hostility to Israel all conferred upon the Islamists the legitimacy of a moral counterweight; but these very accomplishments did not allow them to make a hard-eyed, critical assessment of their own political program".
He places it alongside works such as Mansfield Park and Heart of Darkness, which are unpalatable by way of their inherent colonialism but still capable of holding our interest as works of art.
Ultimately, the binary logic of good versus evil has masked some of the more problematic aspects of Indy's escapades, not least their neo-colonialism and sexism.
Where they had ravioli and Michelangelo, we had pasties and colonialism – their Fellinis are our Curtises, their Galileos our Joey Bartons.
Moreover, virtually all Kenyans bowed to him as their liberator from colonialism.
From Britain and France, with their histories of colonialism and slaughter, or the United States, whose drones have, well out of view of television crews, killed scores of civilians?
In the early 1840s he developed a deep interest in Native Americans and over his lifetime championed their struggles against colonialism and oppression.
Marie Thérèse Assiga-Ahanda of Cameroon wrote the novel Sociétés africaines et "High Society" (1978; "African Societies and 'High Society'"), a story about two people returning to their country after colonialism, only to find a new kind of colonialism an internal kind.
"The people have found a way to express their rejection of colonialism without having to choose between the options for political status".
He rightly disparages the abstruse theorising of academics who use literary works to prosecute their grudges about colonialism or the politics of gender.
