萨义德认为,时代在变,英国作家的殖民意识形态不变。但事实上,英国作家对殖民主义的态度随着帝国境遇的改变而改变。帝国经历了从兴起到繁荣再到衰败的命运,殖民话语也相应地经历了从霸权到怀疑再到颠覆的过程。尤其是在二十世纪五十年代以后,去殖民化浪潮风起云涌,殖民帝国土崩瓦解,作家也顺应历史发展,在作品中解构了殖民话语的霸权地位。 Sayed argues that the times are changing and that the British writers’ colonial ideology remains unchanged. But in fact, British writers’ attitude toward colonialism changed as the empire changed. The Empire experienced the fate of its rise from prosperity to decay, and the colonial discourse went through from supremacy to suspicion to subversion. Especially since the 1950s, the tide of decolonization surged, the colonial empire collapsed, and writers also conformed to the historical development and deconstructed the hegemony of colonial discourse in their works.