《人猿泰山》写于20世纪初,却体现出浓厚的19世纪维多利亚时代的意识形态,是一部典型的殖民主义文本。赛义德在《东方主义》中说到每一个欧洲人,就他关于东方的所论而言,都可以正确地认为是帝国主义者,几乎纯粹的种族中心主义者。作为资产阶级知识分子的巴勒斯无法摆脱帝国主义意识,常常不自觉地陷入了殖民主义话语,传承了历代殖民主义作家对殖民地的描写。 “Tarzan” written in the early 20th century, but it reflects the strong nineteenth-century Victorian ideology, is a typical text of colonialism. Sayed said in “Orientalism” that every European person, in his theory of the East, can rightly regard the imperialists as almost purely ethnocentric. As a bourgeois intellectual, Burroughs can not get rid of the awareness of imperialism. He often unconsciously plunged into colonial discourse and inherited the colonial past by colonial writers.