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Post-colonial literary critics re-examine classic literature with a particular focus on the social " Discourse " that shaped it. For instance, in ''Orientalism'', Edward Said , analyzes the works of Honoré De Balzac , Charles Baudelaire and Lautrèmont, exploring how they were both influenced by and helped to shape a societal fantasy of European racial superiority. Post-colonial fictional writers interact with the traditional colonial discourse, but modify or subvert it; for instance by retelling a familiar story from the perspective of an oppressed minor character in the story. Notable authors
OTHER IMPORTANT AUTHORS IN POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Joseph Conrad and Charlotte Brontë are not "post-colonial" authors per se, but are of specific interest within postcolonial theory in part because postcolonial authors such as Chinua Achebe and Jean Rhys (among others) engage and rework their novels. Notable critics
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