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From: The Hudson Review
Date: 20021001
Author:Mason, David

Awake! (not Greece-she is awake!)

Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake,

Awake my spirit! Think through whom

And then strike home.

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Where is the truth?

I too was an archer in the war;

my fate, that of a man who erred.

-George Seferis

Cultures misread each other, just as individuals do. It's hard enough-perhaps impossible-to know oneself, as Plato advised, let alone to know another. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try. The whole field of postcolonial literature, which could encompass most literatures of the modern world, arises at points of change that ...

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