043720000a22004690004500 451501 20230419100623.0 090806t2008 enka g 000 0 eng d (Sirsi) 451501 UIAM eng rda ff----- PN56.I465 Aimillia Mohd Ramli, author 87314 Race, gender and colonialism in Victorian representations of North Africa : the writings of Charlotte Bronte, Ouida and Grant Allen / by Aimillia Mohd Ramli Manchester : Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester, 2008 c2008 275 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm. rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume "A thesis submitted to the University of Manchester for the degree of PhD in English and American Studies in the Faculty of Humanities."--On t.p. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Manchester, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 257-275). Charlotte Bronte, Ouida and Grant Allen are known for their novels that engage with the issue of gender, race and Empire within the context of nineteenth-century representations of French-colonised North Africa and Algeria. An analysis of colonial discourse, engaging specifically with Edward Said's Orientalism, is helpful in understanding the underlying anxieties and ambivalences regarding these issues that are present in these writers' works, and in particular Bronte's Villette. Ouida's Under Two Flags and Allen's The Tents of Shem. Not only do the novels provide a chronological analysis of the gradual transformations underwent by representations of Arabs in English literature from their portrait as courageous freedom fighters, in the middle of the nineteenth century, to a mass of blood-thirsty savages less than fifty years later, they also demonstrate shifts in the types of anxieties that colonial discourse underwent during this period: from fears regarding possible contaminative effect that the East was said to assert on the treatment of women in the West in Bronte's novel, through a more ambivalent attitude towards sexual practices in the region in Ouida's work and, finally, the tension that results from racial encounters and the fear surrounding degeneration in Britain in Allen's novel. While novels by Bronte and Ouida imply the sources of these anxieties as coming from outside Britain, Allen's writings reflect his fear that the future of the English race was being threatened by a surplus of childless and unmarried women within the metropolitan centre. In fact, the narratives studied here deeply imbricate the race and character of the English with gendered representations of North Africans during that period. Even though colonialism is perceived as consolidating the superiority of the English race in comparison to other races, increasing encounters between it and these 'others' at the periphery, in particular North Africa, inevitably expose anxieties to be a significant part of the English colonial identity. Also available on 4 3/4 in computer optical disc. Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Villette 87315 Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855 Criticism and interpretation 87316 Quida, 1839-1908. Under two flags 87317 Quida, 1839-1908. Criticism and interpretation 87318 Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. Tents of Shem 87319 Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. Criticism and interpretation 87320 Imperialism in literature 33307 Colonies in literature 33308 Race in literature 87321 Gender in literature 87322 Theses, IIUM foreign 13634 University of Manchester. Faculty of Humanities 87323 Race, gender and colonialism in victorian representations of North Africa : the writings of Charlotte Bronte, Ouida and Grant Allen (Computer file) 87324 https://lib.iium.edu.my/mom/services/mom/document/getFile/3rTRXE9yh4wRQVD43cSgNjnrr2WfFC3R20141002112220656 Click here to view 1st 24 pages of the thesis. Members can view fulltext at the specified PCs in the library. hj-ajt-hab-zhmn lcc 433649 463790 0 0 0 0 THESES IIUM IIUM MULTIMEDIA 2017-10-20 0.00 t PN 56 I465A294R 2008 00011102733 2017-10-20 00:00:00 1 0.00 THESIS