In the colonial and postcolonial ages, many people have engaged in fights against the hegemonic knowledge that is Orientalism. The attempt to re-define the nature of India and her history from a local native perspective was a significant facet of the early nationalist movement, a reason which often claims Vivekananda as an initial thinker. Vivekananda’s adventure relates with Prakash’s understanding of the nationalist project as an effort to “[transform] the object of knowledge, India, from passive
My thesis emphases primarily on racial stereotypes, gender issues, classes …. In other words Otherness (its causes and consequences) the chosen novel discuss the previous themes of racial profiling, injustice, slavery and the evils residues of the system. Through the novel, we can infer several images of otherness in that period of time widening the scope of stereotypes hence the Other’s image. Historical background about the theory of the Other The Other infiltrates our existence to the
Faculty of Literature and Humanities Department of English Language and Literature Master’s Thesis Developing a Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis (CCDA) Framework for Interaction Analysis in an Iranian EFL Context By: Amin Davoodi Supervisor: Mostafa Hasrati, PhD Advisor: Nouroddin Yousofi, PhD February, 2015 Acknowledgment I would like to express my special appreciation and thanks to all those who contributed to this thesis. First of all, I would like to express my immense gratitude
Caribbean, and Rush Hour all create fantastical and exoticized images of Asian countries and societies. Such portrayals have been thoroughly dissected by scholars across numerous disciplines, who have viewed Western media through the lenses of orientalism, cultural hegemony, and economic opportunism. However, the relationship between Asian Americans and Asia is less well documented. This section seeks to explore portrayals of Asia in Asian
Creating a mind, which gives the consent (accepts the hegemony), is never a simple act. It indeed results from the social structures and the cultural designs. The code of conduct, moral value and education standards are the designed by the ruling classes and followed by the rest, both in social and global scenario. This social and cultural scenario dictates each group or its subordinate societies to what should be its behavior. Each and every institutions (social, cultural, political and economic)