Richard Cumberland wrote plays that had sympathetic depictions of the characters that focused on what mindset, based on unequal relationships between two countries?
Richard Cumberland (dramatist) Richard Cumberland (19 February 1731/2 – 7 May 1811) was an English dramatist and civil servant. In 1771 his hit play "The West Indian" was first staged. During the American War of Independence he acted as a secret negotiator with Spain in an effort to secure a peace agreement between the two nations. He also edited a short-lived critical journal called "The London Review" (1809). His plays are often remembered for their sympathetic depiction of colonial characters and others generally considered to be margins of society.
Abdirahman Hussein Abdirahman Hussein (born in Hargeisa, Somaliland) is a scholar and teacher who taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is best known for his book on Edward Said, "Edward Said: Criticism and Society" (London: Verso, 2002), in which he offers a critical study of Said and his influences. The book was praised by Bart Moore-Gilbert for its "judicious critique" of Moore-Gilbert's own 1997 study of Said in which, he says, he did not pay sufficient attention to the "Palestinian dimensions and orientations of Said's thinking". Also noted is Hussein's "triangulation" of Joseph Conrad, whose "Heart of Darkness" is, according to Hussein, "foundational to Said's entire career and project". One of Hussein's focal points is Said's 1976 book "Beginnings: Intention and Method", whose importance he says is overlooked.