{"id":8714,"date":"2015-02-17T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/shooting-an-elephant\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T09:03:09","slug":"shooting-an-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/shooting-an-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting an elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shooting-an-elephant-195x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shooting-an-elephant-195x300-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"shooting-an-elephant-195x300\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\"><\/a>This short story (full text <a href=\"http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/orwell\/887\/\">here<\/a>) can be read as an allegory for colonialism as a whole. The German title is &#8220;Shooting an Elephant&#8221; and is published in the following volume: Meistererz\u00e4hlungen von George Orwell, Gebundene Ausgabe (11th edition), Diogenes Verlag (2003).<\/p>\n<p>George Orwell 1936: Shooting an Elephant. In: New Writing No. 2<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore <a href=\"https:\/\/links-lesen.buchkatalog.de\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/KNVHomeStore\/55741\/10002\/-3\">links-lesen.de<\/a>, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/links-lesen.buchkatalog.de\/Product\/1071645\/55741\/10002\/-3\/Buecher_Romane\/George-Orwell\/Shooting-an-Elephant\/4099276460822241225\/4099276460822241224\/4099276460822241224\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short story (full text here) can be read as an allegory for colonialism as a whole. The German title is &#8220;Shooting an Elephant&#8221; and is published in the following volume: Meistererz\u00e4hlungen von George Orwell, Gebundene Ausgabe (11th edition), Diogenes Verlag (2003). George Orwell 1936: Shooting an Elephant. In: New Writing No. 2 If you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,380],"tags":[357,363],"class_list":{"0":"post-8714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"tag-colonialism","10":"tag-racism"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",351,185,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",351,185,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",351,185,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",351,185,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",351,185,false],"bunyad-small":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",150,79,false],"bunyad-medium":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",351,185,false],"bunyad-full":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",351,185,false],"bunyad-viewport":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",351,185,false],"bunyad-768":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shooting-an-Elephant2.jpg",351,185,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"glokal e.V.","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/author\/glokal\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This short story (full text here) can be read as an allegory for colonialism as a whole. 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