Orwell, animals, and the east

Essays in Criticism

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 234-255

  Kerr, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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DOI: 10.1093/eic/49.3.234     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. 'Inside the Whale', XII:93. All quotations from Orwell are taken from The Complete Works of George Orwell, ed. Peter Davison, (1998), 20 vols. The first nine volumes cover books Orwell published, and for these the Davison text and pagination are also followed in the corresponding volumes of the Penguin Books Authoritative Text
2. Buddicom, Jacinta, 'The Young Eric', The World of George Orwell, ed. Miriam Gross, (1971), p. 2
3. 'Why I Write', XVIII:316
4. Williams, Raymond, Orwell, 3rd edition, (1991), p. 8
5. 'Such, Such Were the Joys', XIX:368
6. 'As I Please', Tribune, 20 October 1944, XVI:435-6
7. Pratt, Mary Louise, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, (1992), chs 3, 9
8. 'Marrakech', XI:418
9. Down and Out in Paris and London, I:117
10. Nineteen Eighty-Four, IX:132
11. The Road to Wigan Pier, V:117
12. Preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm, XIX:88
13. 'A Hanging', X:207-10
14. 'Shooting an Elephant', X:501. The same phrase occurs in The Road to Wigan Pier, V:136
15. John Coombes speaks of the story's 'final solution of undifferentiated, factitiously egalitarian, almost dreamlike collusion, in which no agency can be directly ascribed'. 'A New Dissection of Orwell's Elephant', in Practices of Literature and Politics, Francis Barker et al. eds., (Colchester, 1979), pp. 245-57
16. Suleri, Sara, The Rhetoric of English India, (Chicago, 1992), p. 3
17. Lee, Robert A., Orwell's Fiction, (Notre Dame, 1969), 6
18. 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad', XVIII:240
19. The biologist Davis Ehrenfeld has written an admiring essay on Orwell as a prophet of ecological awareness, finding that he valued 'environments where people and nature interact in a positive way'. Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millennium, (New York and Oxford, 1993), pp. 8-28
20. See also Douglas Kerr, 'Colonial Habitats: Orwell and Woolf in the Jungle', English Studies 78, no. 2, (1997), pp. 149-161
21. 'Shooting an Elephant', X:501-6