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Notes
- 1) Horrocks credits the motivation behind British and American expansion to the need of the modern state to both condone its own violence and at the same time condemn the violence of others.
- 2) Kent explains mechanism of slave trade as: the transport of slaves to North America in exchange for the raw materials of spices, tobacco and rum, which were exported to Britain for manufactured goods
- 3) Miller supports this argument by explaining that the struggle for control over Phuong can function as a representation for a larger struggle: "Phuong is the East, the third world; Fowler the old, and Pyle the new."
- 4) See Miller 99-101. Also see Adamson 138.
- 5) In this chapter, Gikandi explores the anxiety behind Odili's narration through detailed description of his language, even at the syntactic and linguistic level.