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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Edward Said"”.
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Exploring the American Anti-Immigration Discourse in Scholarship, Politics, and Activism through Michel Foucault and Edward Said
Using Michel Foucault and Edward Said's theoretical contributions regarding discursive formations, this thesis performs a critical discourse analysis of the anti-immigration discourse in America; a flawed rhetoric that uses the power of language to create is own truth. The ultimate research …
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In search of the myth in history : the narrative of the quest from sacred to secular
Following the work of Edward Said, the constructed truth of the Western Other through a tradition of literary imagery (tropes), and the way these constructions inform and guide the agency and praxis of a dominating West, are now fundamental concepts for much anthropological analysis. Through …
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
… the Third World. Drawing on the scholarship of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Fredric Jameson, I situate Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk within literary attempts at national representation and narratives of westernization. The main question that the study raises is: what are the …
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Performing Methods of Undress towards a Re-Imagined African Masculine Identity
… violent legacy of colonialism and slavery or as Edward Said defines these legacies, via notions of “cultural imperialism”. The purpose of this paper is to inquire whether an aesthetic change from this ideological legacy would ultimately lead to a change in African masculine embodiments. The …
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Steps Toward Healing from the Possessive Other: The Vital Role of Fantastical Literature in Trauma Theory
… notion of Orientalism by postcolonial scholar, Edward Said. The dialogue generated by these schools of thought provide a space in which I unpack the narrative structures unique to fantastical genres through psychoanalytic, feminist, and postcolonial literary theories.</p>
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"Canada's toughest neighbourhood" : surveillance, myth and orientalism in Jane-Finch
… the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Edward Said. The question it attempts to answer is: What knowledge and power relationships are embedded within depictions of lane-Finch in popular Canadian newspapers in 2007? The methodology is a version of critical discourse analysis based on …
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The use and abuse of genealogy : genealogical critique from Nietzsche to Said
… abuse of genealogy, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Edward Said. After elucidating Nietzsche and Michel Foucault's coherent configuration of the genealogical method in their own philosophical projects, it critically deconstructs and rejects the claim that the post-colonial thinker in Edward Said's …
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2014 Ebola newspaper coverage : through the lens of Orientalism
… as defined by Palestinian-American philosopher Edward Said. Orientalism refers to the West's patronizing of Middle Eastern and Asian societies. Orientalism occurs when the West objectifies non-Western cultures turning them into an "other." In this study, the theory is applied to the West's …
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How do students learn about distant places? A critical analysis of how students’ perceptions of Ghana change over a unit of work
… an ‘exoticist’ way of thinking explored by Edward Said in his seminal studies Orientalism (1978) and Culture and Imperialism (1993), and it explores how and to what extent these representations shifted over the course of a unit of geography teaching on Ghana. The research agenda presented …
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Saint-Saens' "Other": Orientalism in Samson et Dalila
… divide and a tense atmosphere. Ralph Locke and Edward Said explain "Orientalism" as "a corporate institution for dealing with the Orient- dealing with it by making statements about it . . . a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient." Though Orientalism …
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Identity, Culture, and the Discontents of Hybridity: A Critical Study of the Post -Colonial (Moroccan) Novel
… I suggest that the journey North, contrary to Edward Said argues, re-inscribes the West as a point of reference and ultimately as a fixed reality against which everything else, including manifest and latent hybrid consciousness, need to be defined. Chapter Five offers a detailed reading of …
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Sarrionandia's Literary Exile: The Art of Fugue
… The concepts of counterpoint as coined by Edward Said and the dialectic of exile articulated by Sophia A. McClennen play a significant role throughout the research. Other notable conceptual frameworks include the Ovidian and solar paradigms of exile developed by Claudio Guillén, Paul Ilie's …
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Corporate Christians and Terrible Turks: Economics, Aesthetics, and the Representation of Empire in the Early British Travel Narrative, 1630 - 1780
… work of scholars such as Srinivas Aravamudan and Edward Said. This critical gap has left early travel narratives by Sir Francis Moore, Jonathan Harris, Penelope Aubin, and others largely neglected. These early writers, I argue, adapted the conventions of the travel narrative while relying on the …
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Claiming Primordial Landscapes: Science and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century Science Fiction Novels
… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—using the theories of Edward Said and Michel Foucault. I pay specific attention to the idea of knowledge serving as power in imperial exploration, and how the control of knowledge allows for the empowerment of imperialist characters in the texts.</p> <p> By reading the …
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Zanko, chef tribal: ethnography of a text
… Pierre Bourdieu (1977), literary critic Edward Said (1978), Walter J. Ong (1999), and a host of other social scientists permit a new understanding of this text. This dissertation analyzes the book by means of various theories to demonstrate its literary importance and its ethnographic …
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Marxism After Modernism: Anglo-American Leftist Theorisations of Modernism in the Later Twentieth Century
… Perry Anderson, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, Raymond Williams, Rosalind Krauss and others, have attempted to make sense of both literary high modernism and the modernist avant-gardes. The study argues that in the period since the 1960s especially, the Marxian cultural left has …
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Images of Experience: Decolonizing Medicine
… geographically colonized as those described by Edward Said in his work, Orientalism. As the European colonialists defined, named, and studied the Oriental, American medicine and its education can be seen to enact very similar impacts and actions on the ill and vulnerable in our country.
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Cultural Resistance: An Ethnographic and Phenomenological Case Study of Palestinian Music Educator Mohamed Fadel's Life and Work
… the string and outreach programs of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in villages and refugee camps in the neighbouring occupied Palestinian territory beginning in 1995, directing the outreach program until his retirement in 2021. The inquiry draws on postcolonial theory, …
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Lebanese Cinema as Resistance: Nadine Labaki’s Rejection of Orientalism and Reclamation of Female Identity
… was constructed by the West, according to Edward Said. Said’s theory of ‘Orientalism’ proposes the construction of the East as a whole by the West, where the East is subordinate to the West and is constructed through academia, literature, religion, politics, economy, media representations, …
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Ímynd múslima í vestrænum fjölmiðlum : samanburður á umfjöllun fjölmiðlanna BBC og RÚV um hryðjuverkaárásirnar í London, 7. júlí 2005
… um átök milli menningarheima og kenningu Edward Said um óríentalisma. Þá var hlutverk fjölmiðla í lýðræðisríkjum skoðað og gert var grein fyrir helstu trúarhópum múslima. Hryðjuverkasamtökin Al Qaeda voru einnig skoðuð þar sem talið var að tilræðismennirnir tengdust þeim. Þá voru fréttir …
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