Discourse on Colonialism
What is the importance of the "babbling corpse" in the book, Discourse on Colonialism?
Discourse on Colonialism
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Discourse on Colonialism
Césaire uses the image of a babbling corpse to depict the European bourgeois class, which “feels itself to be mortal” (49) and therefore begins spouting racist nonsense.
Discourse on Colonialism