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- - - - The grossness and ugliness of the Beetle represented how the British view otherness
      - Cannibalistic nature of the Beetle is the projection of the British view on oriental people
      - Reverse colonization where the Arabs are the tormentors
      - Supports the notion of cultural hierarchy
      - Systemic rape of colonized subjects is emasculating and invading space
      - Implies that Britain is becoming contaminated both racially and sexuality wise
    - - Story is told from the perspective of Mary Prince and her life as a slave
      - Showed her moments of suffering
      - Some of her experiences were edited or exaggerated by publishers
      - This was published in order to get more British readers to support abolition
    - - :check: Impersonated the voice of a Black woman in her writing but relied on stock types
        :check: Use of minstrelsy, appropriation, and a disrespectful tone
        :check: Implied that Black women are not as proper
        :check:Browning supported abolition, but the assumptions were still racist
      - An analysis, "Race and the Dramatic Monologue" confirmed that many other white authors appropriated the voices of Blacks too, so it was not just Browning
      - "The Margins of the Dramatic Monologue" says that Browning tried her best to put herself in a Black woman's shoes
    - - According to John Ruskin, Turner's painting is known for its beautiful portrayal of a terrible event. He painted the sinking ship to raise awareness on supporting abolition.
      - "The Fallacies of Hope" concludes that the painting had such an impact on viewers that people would be compelled to do something about these tragic events.
    - - Colonialism colonizes identities of colonized people
      - Mrs. Seacole has to express herself specifically through white British gender norms
      - Colonial subjects are at the colonizer's mercy and have to abide by their rules
      - England is in the foreground no matter what
    - - Comedy is a way to insert herself into English society
      - Seacole desires to be accepted by whites as a Creole
      - Acknowledges her mimicry of Englishness before readers do
- - - - This is a story about British men who became kings of Kafiristan, supporting the colonialist idea that the British are superior and can change a country for the better. However, so much went wrong with the Kafirs, adhering to the colonialist idea that other cultures are barbaric.
    - - "White Man's Burden" emphasizes that the British are doing a good thing by being a parental figure to the Indians
      - "If" talks about what qualities define a good male imperialist
      - "Recessional" expresses the triumph and pride the British feel towards their empire
    - - All colonies are now considered “one” with the British Empire
      - The British feel pride because they feel as though they are the only country who can create such a diverse empire
      - Aviva Briefel's article indicates that colonized people are shown as barbaric while the role of the British is to tame them
      - Tennyson described the imperialism as natural and India was considered as a British possession
      - The Penn Mall Gazette emphasized how the exhibit was educational
      - “A Visit to Europe” shows that the British know way less about India than the Indians do about the British, which shows how much they care
    - - "War of No Pity" talks about how the Indians were killed for rebelling against British colonialism
      - William Howard Russell wrote in his diary in India about his firsthand experience in watching the mutiny happen, and how horrific it was.
- - - - Describes herself as a female Ulysses, showing that she is educated
      - Presents herself as a strong, Creole woman
      - She was treated with respect by the soldiers, like Queen Victoria
    - - A new, strong desire that women had around the 1890s to push for equality
      - In "Burdens of History," it is concluded that events such as women's suffrage, British Imperialism, and the Boer War all led to the rise of the New Woman and interest in feminism
    - - Flips gender norms to a world in which women rule and men are suppressed
      - In Ladyland, women ruled in an environment full of harmony and nonviolence unlike the ways of men
    - - Lyndall is a feminist role model who says what she thinks and is very bold for a woman of that time.
      - Addresses sex before marriage, and the fact that Lyndall is okay with having an illegitimate child.
      - Lyndall acts masculine but presents herself as a woman
      - Schreiner teases the idea of gender bending since Waldo acts stereotypically feminine in a man's body, whereas Lyndall rejects femininity
- - - - Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi is a spooky story about a blind man who loses his ears. The story also explores Buddhist culture in Japan and what they do.
      - Yuki-Onna is a traditional Japanese ghost story about a beautiful woman in white who kills people, and marries a young man who she had let survive. Eventually, the man found out who his wife really was, and she was gone for good.
      - "The Tower of London" tells the story of a Japanese man who visited the Tower of London, and found ghosts in there. This interpretation of the tower is likely different from the British, who do not find their tower to be creepy.
      - Fukuzawa wrote in an article that in the late Victorian Era, Japan became open to the west which led to more people learning about their culture. This is how Hearn was able to immigrate there and publish Japanese ghost stories.
    - - "The Lotus" is representative of Hinduism, and shows her appreciation of nature
      - "Baugmaree" describes the beauty of Dutt's garden, showing what it is like living in India
      - "Our Casuarina Tree" references aspects of nature unique to India, and is also symbolic of the nostalgia that Dutt feels