Source Integration Exercise

Works Cited

1. Etsy, Jed. Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development.

“If there is one thing upon which Olive Schreiner’s readers and critics now generally agree, it is that The Story of an African Farm is an odd duck in terms of genre and style- a kind of literary platypus whose ungainly combination of parts and functions seems to flummox both classification and periodization” (74). Etsy’s quote emphasizes the difficulty involved in classifying Schreiner’s novel as simply Victorian, African, or a Bildungsroman.

2. King, Stephen. The Stand. New York: Doubleday, 1990. Print.

“It was a walk that Larry Underwood never forgot. He found himself thinking that she hadn’t been so wrong to quote Tolkien at that, Tolkien with his mythic lands seen through the lens of time and half-mad, half-exalted imaginings, people with elves and ents and trolls and orcs. There were none of those in New York, but so much had changed, so much was out of joint, that it was impossible not to think of it in terms of fantasy” (308). The Tolkien reference supports the idea of the post-apocalypse genre as a reaction to and extension of the fantasy genre. If Tolkien’s Shire reflects his dreams of a lost bucolic England, King’s novel (and later post-apocalypse narratives like The Walking Dead and The Last of Us) reflect a desire to return to a frontier America where the gun is the only law and hordes of hostile natives might descend upon a hapless traveler at any moment. 

3. Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven. New York: Scribner, 1999. Print.

“The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. As there was no visible limit to the power Haber wielded through Orr’s dreams, so there was no end to his determination to improve the world” (131). The character of Haber represents LeGuin’s application of Lord Acton’s famous quote, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” to neo-liberal overreach in general, as each of Haber’s “solutions” precipitate a cascade of new problems.

4. Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage, 1994. Print.

“One vivid expression of this occurred during the Algerian war, when the FLN called France the Seventh Wilaya, the other six constituting Algeria proper, thus moving the context over decolonization from the peripheries to the center” (244). This quote counters the idea that Algerian intellectuals saw their struggle against decolonization as limited to their nation.

5. ---. “Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion.” Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1979. Print. 113-123.

“If Orientalism is indebted principally to the fruitful Eastern discoveries of Anquetil and Jones… these must be seen in the wider context created…by innumerable speculations on giants, Patagonians, savages, natives, and monsters supposedly residing to the far east, west, south, and north of Europe” (117). This quote supports the idea that the ‘Here Be Monsters’ appellation on early modern maps colored later European histories of those regions.