Orientalism

During the 1920s the upper class society lived with tremendous power. They all shared similar personalities and attitudes towards life. All except one character, Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is about an upper class society versus the working class. The upper class characters, Tom and Daisy, run into trouble because of their thirst for power. With this constant struggle of power and wealth between class, Marxism flows throughout the text. One character, Gatsby is portrayed as an upper class…

It is my view that only with greater discussion, news media can better present refugee crises and hopefully, phased out their apparent insistence in the reinforcement and propagation of hegemonic discourses of Orientalism. What ‘labels’ does news media use to present refugees? Research suggests that news media has been complicity in the creation and reinforcement of their negative labelling of refugees due to the medium’s uncritical reporting of official government…

INTRODUCTION It is a well know fact that the colonizing of India by the British was not just done with “the power of superior arms, military organization, political power, or economic wealth – as important as these things were”, but it was “sustained and strengthened by cultural technologies of rule” (Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge, ix). The British “had to devise novel, and exceptional, theories of governance,” (Thomas R. Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj Vol. 3, ix) as…

COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY The systematic history writing in the Indian subcontinent started with the coming of the Europeans, who, for their administrative compulsions were required to know the land and its inhabitants whom they were going to rule. But the history produced by them was always imbued with the notions of oriental despotism and self-sufficient village economy, the main characteristic of which was the changelessness from the earliest times to the coming of colonial rule. Hence, all the…

Year 1928 and 1929 were important years for Los Angeles born Chinese actress Anna May Wong. News reports about her Hollywood movies were decreased, instead, according to an American gossip columnist visiting Europe during Wong’s tenure, she was “acclaimed by nobility” in several European newspapers (Petersen, 2014). Severely limited by the noxious roles she was offered in Hollywood, which misrepresented Asian women, Wong left United States to Europe (Vechten, 2003). She then spent two years in…

By showing or depicting certain cultures as backwards, restrictive and ancient (orientalism) and their own as superior. It is a known fact that Hollywood is a much more advanced industry and their values are different than the eastern values. It is actually a channel of influence that flows from Hollywood to Bollywood and then to our Pakistani…

According to Easthope, the concept of hybridity could be generally understood from three aspects—“biology, ethnicity and culture” (Easthope 341). Its etymology, “hybrida” that derives from biology, means a “genetic component”—two species could produce the offspring inherited some characters from, but not being any one of, both species. Its ethnical meaning refers to “an individual ‘having access to two or more ethnic identities’,” which, in Easthope’s sense, has its own limitations, for it…

ABSTRACT In the English Renaissance period, many plays are composed which refer to Ottoman Turk. Plays about Ottoman Turks and Turkish history has originated from information and rumors of European sailors and merchants who were captured by Ottoman Empire. When this flow of information merged with document and trace file, English people began to obtain information about Ottoman and they became more interested in play about Ottoman Turks. According to examination of plays written in Renaissance…

Media is the main means of mass communication regarded collectively, such as television, radio, newspapers, and the internet. Around 1997 the first internet social media site came into existence. By 2003, 24% of the population were social media users. Social media by definition is a form of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos) (Merriam-Webster). Social media usage is at its…

Over the years Immanuel Kant approached the question , “What is being human?” from a variety of perspectives . The success of the physical and mathematical sciences inspired a demand for a science of human nature. Not only would a systematic knowledge of the person round out the circle of sciences, but, as Hume understood it, such a knowledge would place all other sciences on a secure basis. It is evident that all sciences have a relation greater or less to human nature”. Therefore the science…