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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"Orientalism"”.
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Saint-Saens' "Other": Orientalism in Samson et Dalila
… 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 began as working with …
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From Orientalism to Japonisme: Hugo, Baudelaire and Mallarme
"In nineteenth-century France, both Orientalism and Japonisme were heralded as ways to rejuvenate art and literature. Did these movements actually ""modernize"" the arts? This thesis visualizes the esthetics of the Orientalist poetry of Hugo, Baudelaire and Mallarme through a parallel study of …
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2014 Ebola newspaper coverage : through the lens of Orientalism
… whether the coverage reflected the theory 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 …
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Orientalism and its Challenges: Feminist Critiques of Orientalist Knowledge Production
Orientalism has shaped conventional Euro-American epistemologies and approaches towards non-US/European people. Orientalism, as a set of epistemologies has enabled the co-production of multiple violence and imperial domination. The production of Orientalist knowledge is not only an archive; but …
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Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West's Post -Mao China
To show this re-constitution of orientalism, I draw on Marxist and post-colonial theory in an inter-disciplinary analysis of several fields. These include Area Studies work on the Mao and 'reform' eras, from the Great Leap Forward famine to the 1989 Tiananmen event and beyond; the reception of new …
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Identity formation in the novel : orientalism, modernity and Orhan Pamuk
The novelist Orhan Pamuk rose to prominence as a writer in the midst of the westernized, secular Turkish community in the late twentieth century. Pamuk has insisted that he has attempted to depart from the overtly political style of other writers in his generation. Instead, he strives for his work …
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Overlapping Terrains: Orientalism, Indian Nationalism and the Erotics of Cross -Cultural Contact
… as differences between anthropological/modernist Orientalism and Indian nationalist representational endeavors and examines Orientalism's and Indian nationalism's epistemological limits and failures, as well as the problematic character of the boundaries between sanctioned and unsanctioned …
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Lebanese Cinema as Resistance: Nadine Labaki’s Rejection of Orientalism and Reclamation of Female Identity
… 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, amongst others. The West and …
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"Canada's toughest neighbourhood" : surveillance, myth and orientalism in Jane-Finch
This study examines coverage of lane-Finch in popular Canadian newspapers in 2007. It explores the often-negative representations of the community through conceptual frameworks based on the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Edward Said. The question it attempts to answer is: What …
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Thoreau's Orientalism: A study of Confucian and Taoist elements in Thoreau's readings and writings
This study is a comparative attempt to elucidate the influences on Thoreau of the Orient, particularly Confucianism and Taoism, which has not received a systematic, scholarly treatment so far. In placing this discussion within the comparative tradition, the effort is oriented toward the emphasis on …
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The Orientalism of Edgar Allan Poe: The Allure of the Middle East in Al-Aaraaf
… two of his prose essays. The major aspects of Orientalism examined in Poe's works rely on the theoretical ideas of Edward Said's Orientalism and other ideas developed by important Arab writers. Said and other Arab writers agree that Islam is the locus of any study of Orientalism. This thesis …
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Neo-orientalism? A critical appraisal of changing Western perspectives: Bernard Lewis, John Esposito and Gilles Kepel
… and critically studied by Edward Said in Orientalism. Since Orientalism was published in 1978, however, the world seems to have become much more interdependent and political interrelations between the West and Islam have changed dramatically. Consequently this dualism, though more or less …
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Invisible Humans, Visible Terrorists: U.S. Neo-Orientalism Post 9/11 and Representations of the Muslim World
U.S. neo-Orientalism as a new form of Orientalism was ushered in after 9/11. Although it operates within the frames of Said’s theory of Orientalism, U.S. neo-Orientalism offers new approaches to and representations of Islam and the Muslim world that have a different point of departure from that of …
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The Africa command: how the Department of Defense has continued America’s ad-hoc foreign policies in Africa through neo-orientalism
… U.S. and Africa and uses Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism as the basis for exploring their relationship in AFRICOM. I argue that DOD has, perhaps unwittingly, used what I call “Neo-Orientalism” to legitimize its actions in Africa through the institution of AFRICOM. This work also examines the …
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Modernist Orientalisms: Klee, Matisse, and North Africa, c. 1906-1930
<p>The ambivalent relationship between Orientalism and modernism is the central theme of this dissertation. Art historians have primarily considered Orientalism in the visual arts within the framework of the long nineteenth century. Until now, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse's separate exotic travels …
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Orientalist representations of Persia in the works of Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Moore and Morier
… framework comes from Edward Said’s analysis of orientalism. It is argued that the case of Persia instances the heterogeneous and striated character of orientalism (‘representations’ rather than ‘representation’ in the title). It is shown that while a number of relatively similar set of motifs …
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The representation and consumption of 'Asian culture'
… Through a critical engagement with Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) which charted Western inferiorizing cultural representations of the East as located in historical and material contexts, I aim to explore issues of 'race' and Otherness amidst a background of historical and commodification …
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