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Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia , and Geneva, Switzerland , and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Fyodor Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment ; Conrad was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky.
- Joseph Conrad
- Novel
- 1911
- 1911
3,238 ratings314 reviews. Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny and the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society.
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Dec 17, 2023 · A book by Chandra Mohanty that critiques the Western feminist discourse that constructs third-world women as victims and underdeveloped. Mohanty argues that this discourse is a form of colonialism that ignores the diversity and agency of women in the Global South.
Jan 9, 2006 · A novel based on a document of a Russian student's diary in Geneva, revealing his involvement in a political conspiracy. The novel explores the themes of freedom, tyranny, and human nature under the influence of words and reality.
A critique of Western feminist writings on women in the third world that construct a monolithic and ahistorical \"Third World Woman\" based on ethnocentric and universalist assumptions. The author argues that such discourses are a form of discursive colonization that limits the possibility of feminist coalitions across boundaries.
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Dec 18, 2007 · Bomb-throwing assassins, political repression and revolt, emigre revolutionaries infiltrated by a government spy: much of Under Western Eyes (1911) is more topical than we might wish. Set in tsarist Russia and in Geneva, its concern with perennial issues of human responsibility gives it a lasting moral force.
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