"In one remarkable paragraph, Rushdie's Chamcha is told how the upper-class whites objectify the immigrant's identity in England: 'They describe us... That's all. They have the power of description, and we succumb to the pictures they construct' (Rushdie 1989:168). The Arab literary critic Sadik Al-Azm (1991) cogently observes that in Rushdie's novel, just as in Jean Genet's palys The Maids and The Blacks, the charaters only become objectified 'others' through the gaze of a superior 'self'. By accepting these stigmatized identities, they begin to gain control of the asymmetrical relationship. In The Blacks, the black protagonists frequently declare, 'We are what they want us to be. We shall therefore be it to the very end, absurdly.'"
Have I found a way?
Have I found a way?
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