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"If we claim that great literature has a timeless and universal significance we thereby demote or disregard cultural, social, regional, and national differences in experience and outlook, preferring instead to judge all literature by a single, supposedly 'universal', standard."

Barry, Peter. "Beginning Theory". 2017.

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"What postcolonial critics do: They reject the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical Western literature and seek to show its limitations of outlook; they examine the representation of other cultures in literature as a way of achieving this end."

Barry, Peter. "Beginning Theory". 2017.

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"If the first step towards a postcolonial perspective is to reclaim one's own past, then the second is to begin to erode the colonialist ideology by which that past had been devalued."

Barry, Peter. "Beginning Theory". 2017.