Orientalism deals with the representation of the Orient by mainly French and English Europeans in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Orientalism mainly focuses on the Arab countries, whereas For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies Attacks Orientalism for only focusing on the central Arabic countries and leaving behind Turkey, Persia, India, and northern
the other hand, as the West stereotypes the Orient and its women in its literary works, the East, led by Edward said, stereotypes the Oriental literature, and perceives it only under the light of imperialism. Although these stereotypes can be true, as some Arab Muslim women in certain
Orientalism is a book written by Edward Said, the ‘father' of post-colonialism. He is also called as ‘A man of controversy', where his writings influenced many theories, activists, and also changed most of post-colonial studies of the Middle East in the United State and Europe drastically, especially in literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, and comparative religion studies. His writings have been translated into 26 languages, receives lots of review including critics and enthusiasts
coercion and will further delineate the different categories of imperialism and colonialism. In addition to this deficient definition, ‘postcolonial’ also signifies a set of theoretical perspectives of which the associated limiting factors and benefits will be explored (Sidaway 2000). To fully understand this highly contested
categories of imperialism and colonialism. In addition to this deficient definition, ‘postcolonial’ also signifies a set of theoretical perspectives of which the associated limiting factors and benefits will be explored (Sidaway 2000). To fully understand this highly contested term, and present relations between western and non-western peoples, it is necessary for postcolonialism to have a historical vision (Sharp 2009). In other words, the practice of colonialism
provoked stereotype of a black woman to increase profit in sales. Some of the themes that support the visual representation of Aunt Jemima’s image are portrayed in the lectures on commodities and advertising, gender, ethnographic gaze, and cultural imperialism. The concepts that will be used to analyze the advertising icon of Aunt Jemima is linking commodity culture, race, clinical gaze, and the practice of promoting a more powerful culture the Americans over a least desirable culture of African Americans
The Post-colonial experiences have made the relationships of families much more difficult due to the fragmentation throughout the country. Children and adults lost their home and the struggles and troublesome difficulties they had in their homeland. The development of the colonizer’s land, made them to become confused with where their loyalties should lie. In Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’, the Kochamma family is a family of tragic people. It is their own cultural traditions that
The Post-colonial experiences have made the relationships of families much more difficult due to the fragmentation throughout the country. Children and adults lost their home and the struggles and troublesome difficulties they had in their homeland. The development of the colonizer’s land, made them to become confused with where their loyalties should lie. In Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’, the Kochamma family is a family of tragic people. It is their own cultural traditions that
The Novel as a Nation and Nation as a Novel A Study of Hyder’s River of Fire (Aag ka Dariya) Aratrika Bose 05021600916 M.A Final The concept of nation is more often than not constructed by narrations of dominant discourse or history as it is called. History always documents the teleological macro narratives of battles and invasions foregrounding the side which conquers and wins. There is no space for the minorities or in other words marginalised groups are created precisely through this one
A noticeable depiction of the Arab Muslim woman in the Western literature inhabits the Western culture today. This depiction has formed an important part of the Western approach towards the Eastern world and especially the Muslim one since the eighteenth century. Most of these depictions are built on the assumption that the East, and Islam in particular, " was innately and immutably oppressive to women, that the veil and segregation epitomized that oppression, and that these customs were the fundamental