Orientalism

Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum is home to multiple paintings including Charles Christian Nahl And A little Child Shall Lead them and his The Love Chase . The date And A Little Child Shall Lead Them is unfortunately unknown. And A Little Child Shall Lead Them painting is approximately 3’x3’. The Love Chase is a five-part series that consists of two 6’ x 5’ and three 3’x4’ paintings. The paintings are dated in 1869. And A little Child Shall Lead Them and The Love Chase are both…

postcards made from 1900 to 1930. Alloula argues that the postcards were a form of symbolic assault on the veiled and private women of Algeria, who were played in them by paid models, as denizens of the colonial fantasy of the harem, as created by Orientalism. In the first chapter “The Orient as Stereotype and Phantasm,” Alloula outlines his mission to respond to the colonial gaze as an Algerian by analyzing the mechanisms used to create the desired phantasm or phantasy of the exotic, and often…

The works of the Romantic period were shaped by changing ideas, and current social and political change, reflecting and commenting on this upheaval in their works often through an adherence to or a divergence from genre. The novel experienced a lot of experimentation in this period, Scott’s Waverley being the bestselling example of this . The combination of a National tale and one of the first uses of the historical novel genres together worked allowed Scott to consider political and social…

Drawing on 2 key assumptions relating to the nature of knowledge and power by Michel Foucault (1972) and Orientalism by Edwards Said (1978), Attwood (1992) coined the term Aboriginalism which refers to a discourse - a formal discussion, a way to know about the Aboriginal people and culture. Within this discourse, there are 3 independent forms to know about the…

because in their culture they are just helping with God’s plan. It is seen as a type of sacrifice when the mothers neglect their infants to the point of death.(Scheper-Hughes 340-399) 3. Orientalism is related to the term “discourse.” It…

The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel near Potsdam (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.388) is an oil painting on canvas produced in 1834 by the German painter, Carl Blechen. The piece is 52 ½ by 50 inches, depicting a scene of lush greenery and four women who have the appearance of stepping from the pages of a fantasy novel, all united within the pastel confines of ornate greenhouse walls. Despite its mystic and dream-like properties, Blechen 's Interior of the Palm House is…

A Postcolonial Interpretation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” Analysed passage: Page 26 “In the library I found, to my great delight..” - Page 29 end. (Penguin Classics Reissue) Post-colonialism is the discourse that reflects upon and reacts to the legacy of colonialism and imperialism within literature and culture. In the late 1800’s at the time when Dracula was written, there was a growing sense of cultural decline within Britain - many feared that people were losing sight of what it truly meant…

This paper explores conscious and unconscious thought trends in O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” through an equivalence to a clash between two opposite cultural sensibilities. The Emperor being a black faces a conflict between dialectical strains of conscious and unconscious i.e. conscious is powerful whereas unconscious is suppressed and silenced. But the course of the dramatic action shows how the unconscious is foregrounded i.e. the powerless overtake the powerful in both psychological and…

Basing his argument on “Michel Foucault’s notion of a discourse,” Said defines Orientalism/colonialism as “the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient [the colonized]” (Said 1978: 3). The methods used to do this are “making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, […] teaching it, settling it, [and] ruling…

facts in the story various times. This revelation demonstrates the stereotypical manner that Norma views Jordanian individuals while captivating the American audience. In Forbidden Lie$, Anna and Norma utilize the teachings of Edward Said theory of Orientalism, bell hooks’ “Eating the Other” and the Guy Debord idea of “the spectacle.” Forbidden Lie$ explores the book Forbidden Love through the viewpoint of Norma being made the main…