“Listening for the echo”: Representation and resistance in postcolonial studies

Abstract

Edward Said’s Orientalism is an anomalous work in his oeuvre; unlike many of his later books its emphasis on the way in which cultures have been misrepresented and misused by colonial power is not matched by an equally voluble insistence on the need to contest those misrepresentations and therefore to develop more self‐conscious, sympathetic and egalitarian relationships with power’s victims. The importance and availability of those relationships to western readers is explored by The Redundancy of Courage, Timothy Mo’s allegorical novel about the neo‐colonization of East Timor or, as he calls it, Danu. Largely as a result of its distinctive narrative voice, Mo’s novel highlights the hazards and difficulties faced by the western percipient as well as that percipient’s considerable moral and political responsibilities towards the places about which he or she reads.

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