Like many of his characters, at this time had been married and divorced, undergone a spiritual awakening and converted to Catholicism and set about writing some of this greatest works of travel and satire whilst based in Africa. SCOOP draws upon Waugh’s own experience as a foreign correspondent and in particular his time spent as a correspondent assigned to Ethiopia to cover the rise and machinations of Haile Selassie and the Italian fascist incursions of the 1930’. Circumstances that force him to confront his talent. Losing a scholarship and failing to graduate his degree he turns to primary school teaching and later pecking out a living as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail. Preferring to indulge his passion for drinking, university clubs and exploring his sexuality than embracing academic growth. Our author is a man who squandered his own Oxford opportunity on what he later called “fatuously haughty” behaviours. For inside the cover of SCOOP lies the semi-autobiographical confession of a man shunned by his peers, of a family fallen from grace and rejected by those the author most admired, the Oxford men of England’s elite.
To serve this end, representations of Wauvian women in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief and Scoop are explored to shed light on, firstly, Waugh’s attempt to colonize all women literarily and secondly, his biased attitude toward the non-western women as alterity.At first glance Scoop is s novel of chance, coincidence, and manipulation…. Working from a postcolonial feminist perspective, in the present article an attempt is made to portray the complicity of racism, sexism, colonialism, and even the first world Feminism in the discourse of Western Imperialism in making the colonized women more colonized. The female subaltern, then, is arguably triply colonized, this time by the author. This is echoed in his depiction of the ‘sexed subaltern’ who often belongs to categories such as Oriental, colonized, non-white and underclass women. For, though he presents a male world in his fiction and his racialist tendencies, Eurocentricism and class consciousness almost always color his attitude toward women, he also provides the reader with some challenging roles for women. However, his stance toward women was ambiguous. Summary/Abstract: Evelyn Waugh is commonly said to be a misogynist.
Keywords: Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust Black Mischief Scoop Alterity Sexed Subaltern Colonialism Oriental Racism
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief and ScoopĪ Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief and Scoop Author(s): Hossein Pirnajmuddin, Sarah Esmaeeli
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