I point out Gálvez's symbolic use of the colonized other in light of Said and Spivak's warnings to modern critics. Edward Said has insisted that today's scholars must take imperialism into account when reading yesterday's (and today's) texts:

If I have insisted on integration and connections between past and present, between imperializer and imperialized, between culture and imperialism, I have done so not to level or reduce differences, but rather to convey a more urgent sense of interdependence between things.

(Said, 61)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, in «Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism», makes a similar criticism of modern feminism, pointing out how such «canonical» feminist texts as Gilbert and Gubar's Mad Woman in the Attic ignore and even reproduce the «axioms of imperialism».