Favourite Author

Sup folks! Hope the weekend is going well.
I will start the favourite author discussion. My favourite historian/philosopher is either Karl Marx or Edward W. Said. I love Marx' argument about how history is derived by class struggle, and although he is technically a philosopher, his ideas have not been lost on history. I discussed that in class this week, so I will tell of my other favourite historian. I really like Edward Said's trilogy of post-colonial works, especially "Orientalism". I think post-colonial literature is important to understanding how colonialism really operated. It wasn't this "white man's burden" set to "civilize and enlighten" the "barbaric, backwards natives", but was a system of domination and exploitation, along Foucoult lines. And I like his literature because he talks about how brutal colonialism truly was between the Orient and the Occident. It was really unknown before his works came out, but he influenced other great post-colonial writers such as Albert Memmi or Franz Fanon.

Jordan