The Deconstruction of Colonial Stereotypes in Contemporary English Fiction

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,15, University of Göttingen, language: English, abstract: We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception (Lippmann: 90). In defining the nature of stereotypes Walter Lippmann in 1922 explained one of the governing principles of human perception and human relationships. Al ...