Orientalism

Name of student: Ahmed Joudar Department of Comparative literature Second semester: Research plan Spring 2017: (1st report) Supervisors: Prof. Kürtösi Katalin & Prof. Fogarasi György Title: A critical study: How Edward Said explicated the predicament of Exile through the works of 20th century novelists. The Twentieth century can be considered as a highway in which…

In order to establish a well-formed identity, comparisons are made by one group to another to determine what is similar, what is different, what is better, and what is worse about the nonself organization. These judgements can eventually become generalizations about all members of the other group that can describe how they look, how they act, and how they think. These generalizations reduce complicated populations into simple caricatures fabricated by outsiders’ perceptions, creating a concept…

The intention of this essay is to investigate the Western relationship with colonisation, which shall be explored through Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004, THT) and Ella Hickson’s Oil (2016). Both texts raise questions about governance and colonisation in relation to environmental change through their use of character portrayal. Although neither text aims to provide an immediate solution they instead inform the reader and provoke thought on real issues whilst acknowledging that situations…

Moreover, the authors’ approach on the issue of women liberation is holistic. It does not only focus on the liberation of the Afghan women through controlling the Afghanistan regime. Instead, it refers to the swiftness with which the American women embraced the opportunity to fight for the rights they enjoy today. Therefore, the article cannot be dismissed as a mere attack on a specific cultural perspective but it is viewed from a holistic point of view as a rhetoric that is well grounded on…

It is closely tied to Edward Said’s concept of “Orientalism”, which is the artificial distinction that has been created between the “East” and the “West” (where the “East” traditionally referred to the Middle East but gradually extended to include Asia, Africa and Latin America), and thus, becomes responsible…

discourse of post colonialism and neocolonialism and the functions and tries to show that these are factual and cultural imprecision. The foremost theoretical works in postcolonial theory incorporate The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Franz Fanon, Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said, In Other Worlds (1987) by Gayatri Spivak, The Empire Writes Back (1989) by Bill Ashcroft et al, Nation and Narration (1990) by Homi K Bhabha, and Culture and Imperialism (1993) by Edward…

The Debut (2000) was a film presenting the positive aspects of the Filipino culture, using the real problems and relatable issues that teenagers face. This film is one of the first films I’ve viewed which portrays an Asian culture as what it truly is. Unlike many other films and scenes in Hollywood cinema, this film did not use negative stereotypes or derogatory topics as its main base. Director Gene Cajayon is from the Filipino agency and grew up in its heritage; this reflects on the films true…

The latter half of the nineteenth century was an era of unprecedented rapid expansion for European civilization. This growth was the result of multiple factors originating from within Europe— such as the Industrial Revolution, and the development of the highly organized nature of European nation-states— but had consequences that resonated far outside European borders (Jones). The expansion of European industry and economy created an inter-European power struggle, and “one way to demonstrate…

Beyond Orientalism: Muslim Donusa and the "English Mastiffs" in Massinger's The Renegado 1. Introduction While Said has pointed out in Orientalism that “the relationship between Occident and Orient is a relation of power, of domination, [and] of varying degrees of complex hegemony” (15), we must recognize the complex, and multifaceted ways in which the East was represented in a multitude of genres of literary discourse. We should recognize as well that the English experienced insoluble…

painting whose description brought to mind a common stereotype about Africans as well as African Americans. The painting was called “Mrs. Thomas Donovan and Elinor Donovan” created by Joshua Johnston. The painting wasn’t the most expressive. It was hardly colorful. Joshua Johnston was charged with painting a picture of a high born woman with her daughter. In the picture the woman wore dark clothing while wearing ‘shepherdess’ hat. She held her daughter Elinor in her lap along with a bowl of…