A Postcolonial Feminist Study Of George Orwell’s Burmese Days

George Orwell’s works are excellent for their unique combination of artistic andpolitical sharpness. Animal Farm and1984represent the great talent of Orwell’screation, which bring him worldwide fame. As his first novel, Burmese Days did notdraw much attention at his time. However, with the development of deconstructiveand postcolonial theory, critics and scholars begin to rediscover Orwell’s works.Burmese Days has been valued as a classical postcolonial novel. This thesis attemptsto explore the deeper meaning of anti-colonial theme in this novel from thepostcolonial feminist standpoint and character-centered approach. Women assubaltern in colonial Burma are living under multiple oppressions from Britishcolonizers, male dominance in Burma and the intellectuals’ representation. Thereforethis thesis exhibits a higher degree of anti-colonial meaning of this novel.