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The Plight of the Englishman: The Hazards of Colonization Addressed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

Hodson, Katrin C.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617896210333106

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2020, Bachelor of Arts, Wittenberg University, English.
Jonathan Swift’s travel narrative, Gulliver’s Travels, addresses a middle-class Englishman sailing around the world and encountering new populations with unique features. Published in 1726, when British colonization was rampant, Swift’s story confronts the effects of colonization on previously untouched civilizations. This paper touches on two of Gulliver’s journeys, to Brobdingnag and to the land of the Houyhnhnms. Citing the works of Aimé Césaire and Homi Baba, two prominent scholars in the field of post-colonial theory, this paper examines how colonization harms the parties involved, both those who are colonizing and those who have been colonized. Countering the contemporary view that colonization would benefit any civilization that receives contact, the paper notes how it rather leaves destruction in its course.
Cynthia Richards (Advisor)
Rick Incorvati (Committee Member)
Timothy Wilkerson (Committee Member)
51 p.
British and Irish Literature; Literature
Gullivers Travels; Swift, Jonathan; Cesaire, Aime; Baba, Homi; colonization; post-colonial theory; colonialism; Irish literature; satire; satirical literature; English colonialism; imperialism; 18th century literature; eighteenth century literature

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  • Hodson, K. C. (2020). The Plight of the Englishman: The Hazards of Colonization Addressed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels [Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617896210333106

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hodson, Katrin C.. The Plight of the Englishman: The Hazards of Colonization Addressed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. 2020. Wittenberg University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617896210333106.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hodson, Katrin C.. "The Plight of the Englishman: The Hazards of Colonization Addressed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels." Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617896210333106

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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