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All in all, all the perspectives mentioned above help a lot in studying these two novels. However, many critics have neglected Jack London’s postcolonial viewpoint and attitude in these two works. Therefore, the present author intends to explore this theme and the organization of this paper is as follows:
In the first part, a brief introduction of the postcolonialism theory is offered, while the second part is about the presentation of Orientalism in White Fang, and the last one is built on the basis of the relationship between male and its sexual “Other”-- female.
3. Introduction of Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism aroused in the later half of the 20th century and was made theory in the 1970s. Frantz Fanon, one of the founders of contemporary postcolonialism, marked the beginning of postcolonialism through his work The Wretch of the Earth (1960); however, it was not until Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) was published that the theory was substantially promoted and its full-blown system was formed. The term “postcolonial” was further intensified by The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (1989) by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin.文献综述
Colonialism started with the emergence of European nation-states in the 15th century, and by the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the previous empires and the newly emerging expansionist powers, such as the US, Japan, had colonized as much as eighty-five percent of Africa, America and Asia. During the two world wars, most colonial nations were politically on the verge of revolt (Zhu Gang, 2008: 284). On such occasion, the western colonists had to give up their domination over the colonized countries. As the former colonies gained independence in succession, the international relationship had undergone great changes. Nevertheless, the conflict between West nations and the Third World countries which were once colonized still continues, and colonialism does not terminate. “The unbalanced development in politics, economy and culture still makes them maintain an internal tension, which is demonstrated as cultural colonialism” (Said, 1978: 4 – 5).