Orientalism

An integral question throughout Canada’s history has been who is and who is not permitted to come into the country. In The Making of the Mosaic, authors Ninette Kelley, a legal and policy analyst for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Michael Trebilcock, a university law professor, effectively compile legal and political answers in the pursuit of resolving this challenging question. Divided chronologically into eleven sections spanning the beginnings of the French Colony in…

The bomber jacket has flown far and wide since its aviator origins. As a military uniform for pilots and soldiers during the war, the bomber jacket was picked up by style icons soon after and fast became a men’s fashion essential – which stands true still in the new century. Recognised for its transeasonal versatility – making it wearable in summer and winter – the bomber jacket’s cropped, square silhouette cuts a masculine figure and its ribbed cuffs and elastic waistband refine the torso of…

In feminist ideologies, the male gaze is the act of presenting women as objects of pleasure, from the perspective of heterosexual males. The male gaze is internationally prevalent throughout the history of art and film. The gender power asymmetry that dominated the nineteenth-century was a commanding force in how artists catered to the male viewer. This only further encouraged the pre-existing patriarchal ideologies and discourses. A Roman Slave Market by Jean-Leon Gerome will be formally…

Amrita Sher- Gil was born January 1913, in Budapest, to parents of Hungarian and Indian decent. Two separate cultural backgrounds gave Sher-Gil a different view of the world when it came to her paintings and how she perceived art. Instead of studying at the Bengal School of Art she trained in Paris, where she attended the Ecole des Beaux- Art from 1929- 1932 (516). Studying in Paris gave Sher- Gil insight into the traditions and concepts of old masters like Paul Gauguin and Vincent von Gogh. In…

Since ancient times until the presents, music has been a key component of any culture and has reflected the people’s world perception. All important events in people’s lives, i.e. traditional rituals, holidays, and funerals, have always been accompanied by music. Also music can be divided into many different genre, like Rap, Pop, Rock, R&B. Moreover, music nowadays could be an important part of our lives and also different people listen to different music. Black people like rap and R&B, white…

Why do Wilson, Said, and Acuna emphasize history and culture? These essays emphasize history and culture because those two topics tend to get lost, twisted, changed and neglected throughout time. In history when reading about an important event, most likely the story is one sided; because those who are victorious get to tell the tale. Throughout many young people's experiences, when learning about other cultures in school the specific section is either limited and just goes over how they…

The 1998 movie American History X is reputed as one of the most effective films in terms of tackling racism, condemning neo-Nazism, and supporting equality and justice. The way racism, one of the most significant residues of post colonialism is depicted is by showing it explicitly on the film numerous times in numerous different ways, such as switching back and forth from black and white to color, to depict the different stages in Derek's life; symbolizing his time as a racist and as a reformed…

progressive, secular, modern place, where democracy and human rights are the common values. The East is retrograde, religious, barbarian and retarded. The post-colonialism discourses of Dussel, Said and Fanon define world in term of Eurocentrism, Orientalism and national liberation which held later in the 19th and 20th centuries. Enrique Dussel, in his work The Culture of Globalization sees the exact division of Eurocentric and planetary paradigms which arose in 15th and 16th centuries. Later,…

George Sand’s Indiana and Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time interrogate the conflict between individual and collective identity in the nineteenth century through presenting the individual as a site of ambiguity and hybridity that disrupts the supposed coherence and homogeneity of the collective identities cultivated by national and colonial power relations. Collective identity attempts to bound and border individuals within binary categories, presenting groups defined by national, ethnic,…

excerpts from the talk: ``...So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become...’’ Numerous texts dealing with the so called Orient as the Said’s definition of Orientalism would states sprout in with time and its witness…