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Jennifer McCarthy October 20, 2002 Criticism & Theory 270 Professor Mark DeLancey "Heart of Darkness: An Imperialist Perspective" One of the main theoretical constructs posed by Edward Said is that one's identity is always formed from a power struggle. Illustrated in Said's essay, "The Politics of Knowledge," this tension is upheld by the power struggle between the "colonizing" and "colonized" forces of opposing civilizations. From Said's perspective the way in which the "colonized" force receives its identity is due to the imperialist influence of western civilization and cultural. It is particularly limiting to assert that an outside minority culture's identity can be received solely from the meaning placed by a dominate cultural force of any given genre. This notion only exemplifies exclusivity associated with racism; that one is reduced to a stereotypical profile based on the prejudices of the more dominant cultural force. Therefore, Said's argument is restricting by viewing people in terms of race,...

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