Criticism, June 22nd, 1994
Maria Edgeworth's 'Castle Rackrent' can be read as one of the earliest postcolonial novels. Edgeworth ultimately identifies with an English, or colonialist, point of view in the novel, but the Irish narrator still serves as an example of the voice of the colonized. Read as a comic figure by Edgeworth's English audience, the narrator was someone to make fun of, but read as a spokesmen for the colonized, he becomes a symbol of Ireland's pre- and post- colonial periods.
Published in the year of the Act of Union, which ended Ireland's nominal independence from England by dissolving the Irish Parl...
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