Dissertations / Theses: 'Edward Said's Orientalism'

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Nechamkin, Judith. "Edward Said's Orientalism : discourse of power." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26122.

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This thesis is a study of Edward Said's Orientalism. Its purpose is to explain Orientalism as a unique contribution to the debate on the merits and faults of Orientalism. It is written in order to explain the relevance of Orientalism to the discipline of Islamic studies. The point of this thesis is not to criticize or exonerate Orientalism, but to understand its full implications. Orientalism is not the first work to address the topic of Orientalism, but it is unique in its approach and hypotheses. I have therefore focused only on those points which are unique, such as Said's use of Michel Foucault's theories and Joseph Conrad's imagery.

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Allawzi, Areej Khamis Khalifeh. "The visible translator : identifying norms in the translations of Edward Said's Orientalism." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10991/.

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A sizable number of studies have examined various aspects of translation norms. Yet, these studies mainly focus on the theoretical aspect of norms, while neglecting the complementary aspect. This thesis sets out to study the complementary aspect of norms. It builds upon Toury’s model of norms by providing a methodology to identify norms in Arabic translations. Norms are defined as the general values shared in a society regarding what is right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable. They should be understood as an explanatory tool, not simply as a prescriptive tool. Examining norms as an explanatory tool requires investigating the issue of the agency of the translator. Translators’ agency can direct the translation process and can also be led by norms dominating the culture in which translations are generated. This thesis examines the Arabic translations by Kamal abu Deeb and Mohammed Enani of Edward Said’s Orientalism. The cultural scene in the Arabic world, where the translations were produced, encompasses different ideologies that can be reflected in literary works, including translations. Additionally, in some regions, religion can play a guardian-like role as a point of reference upon which authorities rely to monitor different forms of cultural borrowings. This thesis exposes the influence of the norms driven by ideology and religion on the translations of Orientalism. It does so by applying a textual method, as suggested by Toury, which observes regular translational behaviour. This method relies on the pragmatic notion of implicature and Grice’s maxims of conversation to trace the changes in the meaning between the source and target texts.

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Kandeel, Ammar. "Edward Said face à Louis Massignon : une fascination orientaliste." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MON30031.

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Cette thèse interroge les aspects d’une fascination d’Edward Said pour la pensée de l’orientaliste français Louis Massignon. Il s’agit dans un premier temps de revenir sur la réception de l’essai majeur de Said Orientalism (1978), jugé excessivement polémique, afin de souligner les difficultés des lectures à expliquer l’ambivalence des positions idéologiques de l’auteur vis-à-vis de l’orientaliste, positions qui varient entre la critique et l’éloge. Cet examen nous mettra en situation de montrer la nécessité d’une nouvelle approche, supposant la présence d’affinités de pensée entre le critique et l’orientaliste. Plutôt qu’une méthode thématique souvent suivie, et qui cherche à valider ou à s’opposer aux positions de Said, l’approche formelle de la thèse tente de lire le texte dans son ambivalence. Elle permet de voir dans l’instabilité des positions de l’auteur le reflet d’un motif central de son œuvre, à savoir la perte de son lieu palestinien, motif autour duquel il réfléchit sur Massignon et nous permet par conséquent de montrer les dimensions d’un attrait pour l’orientaliste. La comparaison des poétiques d’Orientalism et de L’Hégire d’Ismaël (1935) montrera que les deux auteurs font de la perte du lieu un événement décisif qui inaugure pourtant une Histoire du style de pensée orientaliste pour Said et de la foi abrahamique de l’Islam pour l’autre
This doctoral thesis studies the aspects of Edward Said’s fascination for Louis Massignon, a French orientalist. It focuses first on the reception of Said’s Orientalism (1978), his major essay (which has been) commonly deemed excessively polemical, in order to underline the difficulties to explain the ambivalences of the author’s ideological position – a position which combines criticism and praise. This analysis will show the necessity of (proposing) a new approach to Orientalism, an approach which assumes that Said’s thought is close to Massignon’s. Instead of using the prevailing thematical methodology, which consists in approving or refuting Said’s position, the formal approach of this thesis attempts to reveal the ambiguity of Said’s text. In the instability of the author’s position, one can thus observe the reflection of one of the main motifs of his work, namely the loss of the Palestinian place, a motif through which he analyzes Massignon’s though, and which shows therefore Said’s appeal to the orientalist’s ideas. Comparing the poetics of Orientalism and L’Hégire d’Ismaël (1935) will show that both authors make loss a determining event which still inaugurates a History of Orientalist thought for Said, and a History of Islam’s Abrahamic faith for Massignon

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Tansley, Tangea. "Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said." Thesis, Tansley, Tangea (2004) Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/335/.

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This thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'. It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations. In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence. While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic.

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Tansley, Tangea. "Writing from the shadowlands : how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said /." Tansley, Tangea (2004) Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/335/.

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This thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'. It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations. In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence. While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic.

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Weber, Mirjam. "Der "wahre Poesie-Orient" : eine Untersuchung zur Orientalismus-Theorie Edward Saids am Beispiel von Goethes "West-östlichem Divan /." Weisbaden : O. Harrassowitz, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39247826c.

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Wankerl, Thomas B. "On the imperial storyteller /." View abstract, 2002. http://wilson.ccsu.edu/theses/etd-2002-19/ThesisTitlePage.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2002.
Thesis advisor: Stuart Barnett. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-182). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Tintin, Hodén. "Att visualisera Orienten : En närläsning av Linda Nochlins The Imaginary Orient utifrån Edward Said och John M Mackenzie." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-11683.

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According to Edward Said the Orient is a European construction that has arisen out of a need to describe the Western civilisation as culturally superior. This occurrence Said gives the label "Orientalism". Art historian Linda Nochlin takes Said’s theories further in The Imaginary Orient where she conveys the thesis that the pictorial Orientalism is an expression of an imperialistic ideology. John M. Mackenzie, on the other hand is of the opinion that the pictorial Orientalism rather is an expression of the Romantic movement. To understand the Orientalist art we have to consider the social and historical context in which the work was created. By trying to justify the Orientalists choice of motive Mackenzie takes the view of those who consider art history as a positive discipline. Nochlin on the other hand means that we instead of fortifying the art historical canon we ought to politicize it, which only is possible if we contemplate art history as a critical rather than a positive discipline.

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Camargo, Adrover J. Jesús. "El conflicto palestino-israelí a partir del pensamiento de Edward W. Said." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/373640.

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La present tesi doctoral comprèn una anàlisi del conflicte palestí-israelià a partir de l'obra i el pensament d'Edward W. Said. És un treball des de la reflexió d'un autor a l'exili. En primer lloc, es conforma el marc teòric a partir de l'anàlisi de les obres de Said sobre orientalisme, cultura, imperialisme i resistència. En segon lloc, s'estudia el sionisme des de Said, és a dir, des del punt de vista de les seves víctimes i com a arrel del conflicte palestí-israelià. En tercer lloc, s'analitza el conflicte palestí-israelià a partir de l'obra filosòfica i política de Said des de la Naqbah de 1948, passant per la Naqsah de 1967, les Intifadas palestines contra l'ocupació sionista, els Acords d'Oslo, i les últimes reflexions contra l'atac a l'Iraq de 2003. En darrer lloc, es porta a terme un excurs dels últims deu anys del conflicte després de la mort del nostre autor a partir dels instruments saidians adquirits al llarg de la investigació. També s'analitza, en forma d'epíleg, la Primavera àrab a partir del pensament crític, híbrid i en contrapunt que va vertebrar tota l'obra de Said. Al mateix temps, en forma d’annexos, s’analitzen la paradoxa de les identitats jueva i àrab, i la lluita pels recursos naturals en el conflicte per Palestina
La presente tesis doctoral comprende un análisis del conflicto palestino-israelí a partir de la obra y el pensamiento de Edward W. Said. Es un trabajo desde la reflexión de un autor en el exilio. En primer lugar, se conforma el marco teórico a partir del análisis de las obras de Said sobre orientalismo, cultura, imperialismo y resistencia. En segundo lugar, se estudia el sionismo desde Said, es decir, desde el punto de vista de sus víctimas y como raíz del conflicto palestino-israelí. En tercer lugar, se analiza el conflicto palestino-israelí a partir de la obra filosófico-política de Said desde la Naqbah de 1948, pasando por la Naqsah de 1967, las Intifadas palestinas contra la ocupación sionista, los Acuerdos de Oslo, y las últimas reflexiones contra el ataque a Iraq de 2003. En último lugar, se lleva a cabo un excurso de los últimos diez años del conflicto tras la muerte de nuestro autor a partir de los instrumentos saidianos adquiridos a lo largo de la investigación. También se realiza una reflexión, en forma de epílogo, sobre la Primavera árabe a partir del pensamiento crítico, híbrido y en contrapunto que vertebró toda la obra de Said. A su vez, a modo de anexos, se analiza la paradoja de las identidades judía y árabe, y la lucha por los recursos naturales en el conflicto por Palestina.
This dissertation consists of an analysis of the Palestinian-Israelian conflict taking as a point of departure the ideas of Edward W. Said, the reflective work of an author in exile. The theoretical framework takes into account Said’s works on orientalism, culture, imperialism and resistance. Together with this, the concept of Zionism is studied through Said, that is, from the point of view of its victims as well as the root of the Palestinian-Israelian conflict. Third, this friction is analyzed taking as a starting point Said’s philosophical and political works from the 1948 Naqbah, through the 1967 Naqsah, and also the Palestinian intifadas against Zionist occupation, the Oslo Agreements, and Said’s last reflections on the Iraq War in 2003. Last, a survey of the last ten years of the conflict after Said’s death is carried out using Saidian elements that have come up along the research. The afterword attempts to work out as a reflection on the Arab Spring taken from Said’s critical, hybrid view and counterpoint, which assembled most of his writings. An annex is later included, in which both Jewish and Arab identities are analyzed, as well as the state of the natural resources at the time of the conflict.

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Atreus, Haydar. "Den Omvända Orientalismen : En kritisk jämförelse mellan läroböckernas islambild och muslimernas." Thesis, Södertörn University College, Lärarutbildningen, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-194.

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Denna uppsats tar sin utgångspunkt i en problematiserande läsning av Edward Saids kritik av främst den västeuropeiska kulturens negativa representationer av framförallt den arabisk-islamska världen. Genom att ta fasta på teorins anti-essentialistiska grundpoäng ifrågasätts dess icke uttalade men effektiva tendens att återproducera en missvisande dikotomi. Endast ett sådant ifrågasättande kan på allvar öppna möjligheten att se bortom föreställningen om araberna som passiva och viljelösa offer. En analys av muslimska författares kritik av islambilden i europeiska skolböcker, jämförd med hur islam framställs i svenska historieläroböcker, visar att de senare är långt mer anti-orientalistiska än muslimernas egna islambild. Muslimerna och islam behandlas som historiska fenomen, styrda av samma sociala och ekonomiska faktorer som de som format de västeuropeiska samhällena. De muslimska författarnas kritik handlar dock om ett envist försök att ahistoriesera islam: en plädering för att den endast ska fattas i en teologisk/filosofiskt bemärkelse.

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Gunn, Torri Kenneth. "Defining Religion with Chinese Characters: Interrogating the Criticism of the Freedom of Religion in China." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19878.

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This thesis seeks to explore the points of dissonance and resonance around the understanding and deployment of the term 'religion' between Human Rights Watch, and the government of the People's Republic of China. In doing this, it is highlighted that a fundamental disjunction exists in the meaning of, and the boundaries of, the word 'religion' between these two groups. The space that this difference creates makes discussions on religion and religious freedom between these two groups extremely problematic, primarily because Human Rights Watch seeks to protect the right to religious freedom of groups and individuals that the Chinese government does not consider ‘religion’, but that Human Rights Watch demands they should. This thesis addresses the question of the role of social and cultural relativism in the defining, and the subsequent role in defending, of the term and contents of 'religion'.

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Therén, Sebastian. "Att framställa ”den andre” : En analys av hur Nobelpristagarna i litteratur Bunin och Mistral skildrades i det offentliga rummet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41908.

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In this essay I’ve been looking to extend the knowledge regarding the construction as someone as “the other”. The aim is to examine if it is possible to depict and find a general picture of ”the other”, as he/she is described in the media. I’m not alone in examining this, and I present several works which are somewhat similar to this essay. My work is special however, in that I’ve decided to examine the picture of “the other" by examining how four different Swedish newspapers wrote about the first Russian and the first Chilean Nobel prize winner in literature, Ivan Bunin (1933) and Gabriela Mistral (1945). To be more specific, I’ve been asking the following thematic questions, to find answers to my initial question: Is “the other” portrayed differently, as a result of the winners’ native countries? Is "the other” portrayed differently, as a result of the winners’ social class or gender? Is it possible to distinguish any interesting differences and similarities in how “the other” is constructed, in diverse political schools? Through my findings I’ve discovered that the term “the other” isn’t a homogenous one, as it varies from situation to situation. In Bunin’s case the political aspect of the term tended to outweigh the ethnical one. In other words, the fact that Bunin, in the reporting, is constructed as someone who can represent the political views of the magazine (or is otherfied, as someone who’s representing deviating views), was considered more interesting than portraying a picture of Russia as “the other”. In Mistral’s case the newspapers tended to focus more on her otherness, as a female, in contrast to how the maleness is considered to be normal. There’s also a view of South American people as a whole – as embodied in Mistral – as something different and “other” compared to the Swedish.

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Hamad, Hussein. "Läroboks-muslimer : En postkolonial diskursanalys av gymnasieskolansläroböcker." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Pedagogiskt arbete, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-25521.

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Uppsatsen Läroboks-muslimer behandlar postkoloniala föreställningar och stereotyper i läromedel avsedda för den svenska gymnasieskolan. Studiens syfte har varit att kartlägga och analysera hur islam och muslimer framställs i fyra av gymnasieskolans läroböcker; tillvägagångssättet studien använt sig av har varit att genom diskursanalysen som metod och med avstamp i den kritiska postkoloniala teoribildningen, kartlägga och analysera postkoloniala typifieringar av islam och muslimer med avgränsning på om och i sådana fall hur, läromedelsförfattarna skildrar: 1. Jihad, och 2. Islams kvinnosyn. Resultatet visar att den historiska västerländska diskurs, vilken porträtterar islam och muslimen som blodtörstig, våldsbejakande, kvinnoföraktande och misogyn, fortfarande dominerar och florerar i de granskade läroböckerna. Beträffande skildringen av jihad går det att finna en märkbar utveckling i en av läroböckerna som framställer begreppet komplext och nyanserat. Vad gäller islams kvinnosyn så präglas porträtteringen, i likhet med jihadbegreppet, i mångt och mycket av stereotypt och tendentiöst urval. Studiens analys- och diskussionsavsnitt behandlar hur dessa fynd kan sättas i ett större historiskt sammanhang och kopplas till en postkolonial epistemologisk produktion som stakat ut riktlinjerna för en dominerande samhällsdiskurs om islam och muslimer.

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Reinholdsson, Oskar. "Bro över mörka vatten : En diskursanalys av debatten i den svenska riksdagen rörande Turkiet." Thesis, Linköping University, Political Science, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-58736.

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Aksoy, Seda. "Turken – Europas ”Den Andre” : En kritisk diskursanalys om den svenska medierapporteringen om debatten kring Turkiet och EU." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-58867.

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Uppsatsen behandlar den svenska medierapporteringen kring Turkiet och EU. Syftet var att undersöka om det fanns några imperialistiska och- eller kolonialistiska tankestrukturer i artiklarna kring Turkiets EU-anslutning i Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet. Frågeställningen ämnade till att undersöka två frågor. Den första frågan syftade till att redogöra för hur rapporteringen kring Turkiet och EU sett ut i DN och SvD från och med 1999-då Turkiet officiellt accepterades som kandidatland till EU–fram till 2008. Den andra frågan syftade till att undersöka och belysa om det fanns drag av imperialistiska och- eller orientaliska tankemönster i dessa artiklar. Materialet till undersökningen består av tio artiklar av olika slag, fem stycken från Dagens Nyheter och fem stycken från Svenska Dagbladet, vilka hittades i mediearkivet.se. Teorin som användes i undersökningen är Edward Said's teori om Orientalism. Orientalism redogör för hur framställningarna ”Orienten” i bland annat Europeiska romaner och reseskildringar bidrog till att upprätta en dikotomi mellan européerna och ”de Andra”. Denna dikotomi var central för skapandet av den europeiska kulturen och för att hålla kvar och utveckla makten över Orienten. Kunskapen om Orienten är således långt ifrån objektiv eftersom den producerades av Västerlandet, som ett sätt att förhålla sig till- och kontrollera Orienten. Orientalism ifrågasätter objektiviteten och oskulden inom den västerländska forskningen. I studien har jag även använt mig av Richard Dyer's teori om ”den vita normen” där han menar att ”ras” är något man endast applicerar på icke-vita människor, och beskriver samt diskuterar den vita normens egenskaper. Metoden som tillämpades för att analysera artiklarna var kritisk diskursanalys. Kritisk diskursanalys används för textstudier som syftar till att undersöka texten som en social handling och inte enbart se på dem som informationsbärare. Metoden kam användas till att utforska dolda tankemönster eller ideologier bakom texternas utformning. Jag använde mig av Peter Berglez analysverktyg tematisk struktur, schematisk struktur, frånvarande information och närvarande implikationer, lexikal stil samt politisk/historiska kontextualiseringar. Resultatet av min analys påvisade att det- i de undersökta artiklarna- fanns drag av orientaliska och imperialistiska tankestrukturer i diskursen kring Turkiet och den EU. Turkiet tillskrevs två olika roller som bär typiska mönster för ett imperialistiskt och orientaliskt tankemönster. Antingen så beskrevs Turkiet som den ”underlägsna” Orientalen som ständigt försöker efterlikna europén, genom EU, för kontroll över Turkiet och chansen att påverka resten av mellanöstern, genom Turkiet som ett verktyg, eller som den historiskt rotade västerländska tanken om ”turkfaran”, som ständigt utgör ett hot för Europa.

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Gustavsson, Per. "Ska vi se på film idag? : En undersökning av hur AV - media Kronobergs filmer framställer hinduismen." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-11377.

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AbstractFilm är något som använts i skolan under en lång tid. Film är dock något som används relativtokritiskt. Den källa som lärare normalt använder för att visa film är AV-Media. I dennaundersökning har fyra av AV-Media Kronobergs filmer om hinduismen undersökts: Världensreligioner: Hinduismen och tre delar ur serien Kort om Indien.Teorin bygger i huvudsak på tre böcker, Umberto Ecos Den frånvarande Strukturen, Bill NicholsRepresenting Reality, Mattew Bernstein och Gaylyn Studlars Visions of the East, Orientalism inFilm. Samt Edward Saids Orientalism. Eco används för att spåra en struktur i filmerna, strukturenframträder genom att motsatspar identifieras. Bill Nichols används för att se vilken påverkanfilmernas stil har.I undersökningens analys framträder en struktur med motsatspar. I hela filmerna finns ettöverliggande motsatspar som är Indien – västvärlden. Detta motsatspar förstärks av en mängd andramotsatspar som tillskriver Indien och västvärlden olika egenskaper. I analysen blir det tydligt attfilmernas stil leder till att de sänder ut orientalistiska budskap. Det framkommer också att det finnsen latent orientalism hos såväl tittare som filmskapare.

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Åberg, Malin. "Lärobokshinduism : En studie om hur hinduism framställs i skolböcker för gymnasieskolan mellan åren 1998-2013." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-47550.

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This essay analyses how Hinduism is portrayed within different textbooks produced for students attending senior high school in Sweden, spanning the years of 1998 until 2013. The analysis itself aims to identify any orientalist tendencies within the textbooks as well as how gender is portrayed. The textbooks are analysed from a set of criteria, namely, content, visual text, gender and text analysis. The analysis also examines what changes occur in regards to how textbooks portray Hinduism in the courses Religion A and Religion 1. Textbooks constitute a dominant part of the Swedish education system which makes the findings of this essay relevant and important for educators. The theory which acts as a foundation for this essay has been adapted from Edward Said’s Orientalism. Said argues that Orientalism is a political strategy which uses stereotypical descriptions of Hinduism to show the strength and superiority of the West. The textbooks studied here contain Orientalist tendencies to a varying degree and Hinduism as a religion is portrayed in a simplistic manner throughout. Hinduism is also portrayed in sharp contrast to the structure of western society as a primitive religion in a way that is not fully consistent with how Hinduism is practiced in India and around the world today. There are tendencies toward latent orientalist perspectives. The gender perspective in regards to actual text is roughly unchanged throughout all the material used in the study. However, when viewing the images contained within the material, changes have been dramatic and the more recent textbooks now lean towards being dominated by illustrations of females as opposed to males. The major change in discourse took place between the textbooks connected to Religion A and the books connected to Religion 1. There were significantly less orientalist tendencies present in the textbooks adapted to Religion 1 and a clear pattern could be discerned. Where orientalist tendencies had been diminished the authors had instead attached explanations to the text and expanded upon the subject-matter enabling the reader to gain a greater understanding of what everyday life as a Hindu entails. Another change which could be found in the analysis is that recent textbooks had adapted its subject-matter to conform to how the realities of Hinduism in India and the rest of the world actually look like today. The outdated and stereotypical attributes previously attached to Hinduism based on a western viewpoint have thus faded or been replaced altogether.

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Dahlan, Kinda. "Between Us and Them: Deconstructing Ideologies behind the Portrayal of Saudi Women in Canadian Media." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20145.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate binary discourses of self and other constructed by Canadian media in the representation of Saudi women. One of the modest aims of this research is to expound on the status of centralized media coverage in Canada. Drawing on Hegel’s model of dialectics, as framed by Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) and David Nikkel’s conception of a moderate postmodernism, this research also aims at contributing to the ongoing modern-postmodern discussion by delineating and examining the ways in which dialectical analysis can aid in the deconstruction of metanarratives in Western culture. Utilizing a qualitative research design that employs multidimensional modes of textual analysis, the thesis examined the changes in the portrayal of Saudi Women through a non-probability sampling of 88 Canadian newspaper articles selected from the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and National post between 2001-2009. One major finding was that the metanarratives guiding these representations did not change significantly despite changes in narratives as brought about by several major political events. The implications of this thesis revealed what the ideological influences framing these depictions, as well as whether or not the changes that they have undergone, were self-reifying in nature. The research also highlighted the implications resulting from assessing the ontological identities of Saudi women vis-à-vis a Western framework of values.

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Heinze, Franziska. "Postkoloniale Theorie." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220194.

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Postkoloniale Theorie bezeichnet ein breites Spektrum theoretischer Zugänge zu und kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit historischen und gegenwärtigen Machtverhältnissen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus und seinen bis heute währenden Fortschreibungen stehen. Als Gründungsdokument postkolonialer Theorie gilt Edward Saids Studie „Orientalism“ (1978). Postkoloniale feministische Theorie fokussiert auf die Situation von Frauen bzw. auf vergeschlechtlichte Identitäten in (neo-)kolonialen Settings. Neben der Konstruktion von Gender und Geschlechterrollen sind Sexualität und Begehren wichtige Topoi postkolonialer Theorie. Ein weiteres Themenfeld stellt die Dekonstruktion eurozentrischen / westlichen Wissens dar.

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Schön, Jasmine. "Hermione Granger som “den Andra” : En analys av Hermione som mugglarfödd kvinna." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76153.

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Hermione Granger is the most prominent female character in the Harry Potter series. She is also the only one in the trio of herself, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley who is muggle-born. She is, therefore, most likely to be discriminated against in two aspects – on the basis of her sex and race. This essay examines Hermione with the help of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Edward W. Said’s Orientalism to show how she is represented and portrayed as “the Other” in these two aspects. In which aspect is she more likely to suffer from discrimination, or is it the combination of the two that is essential? As discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, and other aspects continues to grow in Western societies, it is important to look at how this widely popular literary series handles these issues.

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Dowell, Remona Jeannine. "Culture, Gender, and Agency: What Anthropology of the Arab World Offers Conflict Management." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1386975915.

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Williams, Terrol Roark. "Taking Mormons Seriously: Ethics of Representing Latter-day Saints in American Fiction." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1936.pdf.

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Heinze, Franziska. "Postkoloniale Theorie." Universität Leipzig, 2015. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15382.

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Postkoloniale Theorie bezeichnet ein breites Spektrum theoretischer Zugänge zu und kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit historischen und gegenwärtigen Machtverhältnissen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus und seinen bis heute währenden Fortschreibungen stehen. Als Gründungsdokument postkolonialer Theorie gilt Edward Saids Studie „Orientalism“ (1978). Postkoloniale feministische Theorie fokussiert auf die Situation von Frauen bzw. auf vergeschlechtlichte Identitäten in (neo-)kolonialen Settings. Neben der Konstruktion von Gender und Geschlechterrollen sind Sexualität und Begehren wichtige Topoi postkolonialer Theorie. Ein weiteres Themenfeld stellt die Dekonstruktion eurozentrischen / westlichen Wissens dar.

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Yang, Jae Hyuk. "L' Orient de Saint-Simon et des Saint-Simoniens : une étude du discours, 1825-1840." Paris 8, 2012. http://octaviana.fr/document/168727323#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.

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Cette thèse a pour objectif d’analyser le discours orientaliste de Saint-Simon et des saint-simoniens en s’appuyant sur les analyses de l’orientalisme moderne d’Edward W. Said. Celles-ci s’inscrivent en faux contre une forme de compréhension de l’Autre — saisi dans son extériorité — et contre la tendance « occidentale » à fixer l’identité et la nature de ce même Autre dans diverses catégories dont la source est puisée dans la propre culture des observateurs « critiques ». Dans un premier temps, afin de comprendre la problématique de Said, ce travail tente d’examiner les thèses de son Orientalisme tout en prenant en compte les limites de certaines de ses analyses souvent présupposées ; analyses que je cherche à confronter au discours de Saint-Simon et des saint-simoniens. Dans un deuxième temps, je me propose de lire Saint-Simon comme transition sociale en analysant de l’intérieur un discours qui s’inscrit dans une perspective européocentrique de l’histoire des civilisations. Finalement, cette recherche tente de l’analyser les discours des saint-simoniens sur l’Orient et leurs diverses représentations « orientales », inspirées par une foi indubitable dans le progrès de l’histoire et guidées par une certitude de pouvoir sceller la réconciliation de l’Orient et de l’Occident à partir de la propagation de la doctrine saint-simonienne. Les représentations des saint-simoniens sur l’Orient, même si elles ont leurs propres caractéristiques, différentes de celles du discours orientaliste dominant de l’époque, se révèlent inscrites dans les mêmes limites de la vision expansionniste de l’occident au détriment de l’Orient : européocentrisme, absence d’accès à la société orientale, légitimité de l’occupation, etc. Ce travail se propose de montrer que le discours saint-simonien sur l’Orient se rapporte davantage aux saint-simoniens eux-mêmes — c’est-à-dire, à leur doctrine, à leur vision et à leur désir — qu’à la réalité des Orientaux. Dans la plupart des cas, pour les saint-simoniens, les Orientaux sont l’objet de leur entreprise, mais non leur partenaire
The objective of this study is to analyze the orientalist discourse of Saint Simon and the Saint-Simonians on the base of the analyzes of the modern orientalism by Edward W. Said that criticize the understanding of the Other whiche, based on the notion of exteriority, tends to fix the identity and the nature of the Other in various categories formed in his own culture. Firstly, in order to understand the problematic of Said, this study tries to examine the discussions of the Orientalism and their limits whose analyzes are assumed, in this work, to contribute to better understand the discourse of the saint-simoniens. In the second part of this work, it is important to regard the ideas of Saint-Simon as that of social transition and to examine his discourse which is part of a eurocentric perspective on the history of civilizations. Finally, the study tries to analyze the discourse of the Saint-Simonians about the Orient, which consists of various representations inspired by their belief in the progress of the history and in the reconciliation of the Orient and the Occident by their Saint-Simonian doctrine. These representations show the same part of the limits of the expansionist vision of the Orient as the orientalism of the period even though they have their own characteristics that are different from those of the dominant orientalist discourse of the period: eurocentrism, lack of access to the oriental society, legitimacy of the occupancy etc. This work intends to show that discourse of the saint-simoniens on the Orient is related more to themselves than the Orientals considering that the Orient is generally excluded from their discourse on the Orient

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Martin, Jocelyn S. "Re/membering: articulating cultural identity in Philippine fiction in English." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210163.

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This dissertation examines how Philippine (or Filipino) authors emphasise the need for articulating or “re/membering” cultural identity. The researcher mainly draws from the theory of Caribbean critic, Stuart Hall, who views cultural identity as an articulation which allows “the fragmented, decentred human agent” to be considered as one who is both “subject-ed” by power but/and one who is capable of acting against those powers (Grossberg 1996 [1986]: 157, emphasis mine). Applied to the Philippine context, this writer argues that, instead of viewing an apparent fragmented Filipino identity as a hindrance to “defining” cultural identity, she views the “damaged” (Fallows 1987) Filipino history as a the material itself which allows articulation of identity. Instead of reducing the cultural identity of a people to what-they-could-have-been-had-history-not-intervened, she puts forward a vision of identity which attempts to transfigure these “damages” through the efforts of coming-to-terms with history. While this point of view has already been shared by other critics (such as Feria 1991 or Dalisay 1998:145), the author’s contribution lies in presenting re/membering to describe a specific type of articulation which neither permits one to deny wounds of the past nor stagnate in them. Moreover, re/membering allows one to understand continuous re-articulations of “new” identities (due to current migration), while putting an “arbitrary closure” (Hall) to simplistic re-articulations which may only further the “lines of tendential forces” (such as black or brown skin bias) or hegemonic practices.

Written as such (with a slash),“re/membering” encapsulates the following three-fold meaning: (1) a “re-membering”, to indicate “a putting together of the dismembered past to make sense of the trauma of the present” (Bhabha 1994:63); as (2) a “re-membering” or a re-integration into a group and; as (3) “remembering” which implies possessing “memory or … set [ting] off in search of a memory” (Ricoeur 2004:4). As a morphological unit, “re/membering” designates, the ways in which Filipino authors try to articulate cultural identity through the routes of colonisation, migration and dictatorship.

The authors studied in this thesis include: Carlos Bulosan, Bienvenido Santos, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Nick Joaquin, Frank Sionil José, Ninotchka Rosca, Jessica Hagedorn, and Merlinda Bobis. Sixty-years separate Bulosan’s America is in the Heart (1943) from Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle (2003). Analysis of these works reveals how articulation is both difficult and hopeful. On the one hand, authors criticize the lack of efforts and seriousness towards articulation of cultural identity as re/membering (coming to terms with the past, fostering belonging and cultivating memory). Not only is re/membering challenged by double-consciousness (Du Bois 1994), dismemberment and forgetting, moreover, its necessity is likewise hard to recognize because of pain, trauma, phenomena of splitting, escapist attitudes and preferences for a “comfortable captivity”.

On the other hand, re/membering can also be described as hopeful by the way authors themselves make use of literature to articulate identity through research, dialogue, time, reconciliation and re-creation. Although painstaking and difficult, re/membering is important and necessary because what is at stake is an articulated Philippine cultural identity. However, who would be prepared to make the effort?

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Cette thèse démontre que, pour les auteurs philippins, l’articulation ou « re/membering » l'identité culturelle, est nécessaire. Le chercheur s'appuie principalement sur la théorie de Stuart Hall, qui perçoit l'identité culturelle comme une articulation qui permet de considérer l’homme assujetti capable aussi d'agir contre des pouvoirs (cf. Grossberg 1996 [1986]: 157). Appliquée au contexte philippin, cet auteur soutient que, au lieu de la visualisation d'une identité fragmentée apparente comme un obstacle à une « définition » de l'identité culturelle, elle regarde l’histoire philippine «abîmée» (Fallows 1987) comme le matériel même qui permet l'articulation d’identité. Au lieu de réduire l'identité culturelle d'un peuple à ce qu’ ils auraint pû être avant les interventions de l’histoire, elle met en avant une vision de l'identité qui cherche à transfigurer ces "dommages" par un travail d’acceptation avec l'histoire.

Bien que ce point de vue a déjà été partagé par d'autres critiques (tels que Feria 1991 ou Dalisay 1998:145), la contribution de l'auteur réside dans la présentation de « re/membering » pour décrire un type d'articulation sans refouler les plaies du passé, mais sans stagner en elles non plus. De plus, « re/membering » permet de comprendre de futures articulations de « nouvelles » identités culturelles (en raison de la migration en cours), tout en mettant une «fermeture arbitraire» (Hall) aux ré-articulations simplistes qui ne font que promouvoir des “lines of tendential forces” (Hall) (tels que des préjugés sur la couleur brune ou noire de peau) ou des pratiques hégémoniques.

Rédigé en tant que telle (avec /), « re/membering » comporte une triple signification: (1) une «re-membering », pour indiquer une mise ensemble d’un passé fragmenté pour donner un sens au traumatisme du présent (cf. Bhabha, 1994:63); (2) une «re-membering» ou une ré-intégration dans un groupe et finalement, comme (3)"remembering", qui suppose la possession de mémoire ou une recherche d'une mémoire »(Ricoeur 2004:4). Comme unité morphologique, « re/membering » désigne la manière dont les auteurs philippins tentent d'articuler l'identité culturelle à travers les routes de la colonisation, les migrations et la dictature.

Les auteurs inclus dans cette thèse sont: Carlos Bulosan, Bienvenido Santos, NVM Gonzalez, Nick Joaquin, Frank Sionil José, Ninotchka Rosca, Jessica Hagedorn, et Merlinda Bobis. Soixante ans séparent America is in the Heart (1943) du Bulosan et le Dream Jungle (2003) du Hagedorn. L'analyse de ces œuvres révèle la façon dont l'articulation est à la fois difficile et pleine d'espoir. D'une part, les auteurs critiquent le manque d'efforts envers l'articulation en tant que « re/membering » (confrontation avec le passé, reconnaissance de l'appartenance et cultivation de la mémoire). Non seulement est « re/membering » heurté par le double conscience (Du Bois 1994), le démembrement et l'oubli, en outre, sa nécessité est également difficile à reconnaître en raison de la douleur, les traumatismes, les phénomènes de scission, les attitudes et les préférences d'évasion pour une captivité "confortable" .

En même temps, « re/membering » peut également être décrit comme plein d'espoir par la façon dont les auteurs eux-mêmes utilisent la littérature pour articuler l'identité à travers la recherche, le dialogue, la durée, la réconciliation et la re-création. Bien que laborieux et difficile, « re/membering » est important et nécessaire car ce qui est en jeu, c'est une identité culturelle articulée des Philippines. Mais qui serait prêt à l'effort?

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Yo-Yi, Hsu. "Steering Away from Foucault: Edward Said's Orientalism and After." 2006. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0016-1303200709321268.

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Hsu, Yo-Yi, and 徐有毅. "Steering Away from Foucault: Edward Said's Orientalism and After." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82486563556450303135.

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Abstract This thesis has attempted to map out (1) the theoretical trajectory of Edward Said's appropriation of and disagreement with Michel Foucault's analysis about discourse, power and resistance, and (2) the further development of Said's ideas for “Saidian resistance.” To contend that Foucault's ideas occupy a significant position in Said’s writings during his first half of his career, it is not surprising to find out that there are at least six essays or book chapters that mainly discuss Foucault's thoughts; nonetheless, what is surprising is the span of time—approximately fifteen years —that Said kept conceptualizing and rethinking his theoretical/ethical position in comparison with and in contrast to Foucault. In this respect, in Chapter One, after I have presented an overview of this thesis’s central problem and introduced the background and career of Said, I underline the genuine difficulty of systemizing Said's theoretical affiliations. The results show that either “a technique of trouble” or “dialectical thinking” may be helpful for us to understand the “untidiness” of Said’s theoretical views. Although my main concern in this thesis is how Said turned away from Foucault's theoretical frame and developed his unique ideas about resistance, I have nevertheless proposed that we can have a greater picture of postcolonial resistance after we have reviewed key ideas developed by Cabral, Ashcroft, and Fanon concerning national liberation, cultural transformation, and literary resistance. Chapter Two investigates Said's methodological appropriation of Foucault’s notions of history-writing, the scheme of discursive formation, and the genealogy and the transformation of knowledge, particularly in Orientalism (1978), in order to understand the close early theoretical relations between Foucault and Said. This chapter also traces other influences coming from Gramsci, Vico, and Humanism in order to acknowledge that Foucault is not the only determinant on Said's early theoretical framework. It is through Said’s dialectical confrontation with these other factors and figures that Said’s discussion of resistance becomes possible. Chapter Three addresses Said's explicit dissatisfaction with Foucauldian theory in the early 1980s—particularly in essays collected in The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983) and The Reflections on Exile (2000)—and Said’s critical turn to reconsider discourse, power, resistance, as well as the project of poststructural criticism. This chapter also re-examines critiques of Orientalism from different sides, with particular attention paid to the issue of representation, discourse, the position of “postcolonial critics,” and the “untidiness” of Said’s thinking. These significant discussions are important markers as we track the development of and shifts in strategies for resistance. Chapter Four analyzes how Said subsequently proposed his own beliefs about resistance, particularly in Culture and Imperialism (1993), a book that not only discusses the dialectical relation between texts and imperialism but also shows “how innumerable authors and intellectuals of the colonized world make their suppressed histories and identities visible and viable again and strive for ‘the invention of new souls’” (Sheehi 397). In this chapter, I outline Said’s central contributions to the question of postcolonial resistance through critical concepts including “contrapuntal reading,” “secular criticism,” and the responsibility of “intellectuals,” all of which I attempt to regard as strategies of and points of access to “Saidian resistance.” At the end of Chapter Four, I provide a conclusion to attempt to connect shifts in Said's critical positions with the project of contemporary postcolonial studies. I hope my investigation of Said's “steering away” from Foucault would not merely be considered at a theoretical level; instead, my hope is that it can provide us with a perspective to re-conceptualize the ongoing development of contemporary postcolonial studies.

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Kuo, Deborah, and 郭小南. "Translingual Practice: Taking Edward W. Said's Orientalism as an example." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s97gc9.

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Abstract This paper investigates two Chinese translated versions of Edward Said’s book Orientalism – a heavyweight writing of Foucault- and Gramsci-styled discourse telling how the West has produced an “Orient” out of its own will of power while maintaining an “us-against- them” mentality. My goal of this paper is trying to find out how successfully or poorly the translators across the Taiwan Strait have grasped the essence of Said’s English-language book and in turn transformed it into Chinese reading. Accordingly, in the first chapter of the paper, I examined the language backgrounds of the two sides, what translation is and what is about Orientalism. In the second chapter, I surveyed the two Chinese translated versions, their respective translators and how “representations” could be different when the “representers” are different. The aim of the third chapter -- one of the pivotal parts of this thesis -- is then to examine key words of the Orientalism, using them as analytical “points” to gain a better understanding of Orientalism. In the fourth chapter, also an important part, I analyzed the two Chinese versions’ translation, using Orientalism’s sentences and paragraphs as “lines” to discern the entire book and to examine the “translingual practice” from English to mandarin Chinese. In brief, this thesis attempts to explore the possibility of a representation of a knowledge developed from comparing the Chinese translations of an English masterpiece telling the history and truth about how the West saw, created and manipulated the Orient, and their impacts.

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SALAVATI, PARASTOO. "The intercultural relationship between persian and english literature: a translational perspective (with emphasis on the role of Sir William Jones)." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1431070.

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Abstract This PhD dissertation scrutinizes some of Edward Said's notions concerning Western imperialism and colonialism as the hidden targets of Orientalism, presented in his celebrated book, Orientalism. It also demonstrates that Said's political ideas have prevented him from conceiving the literary and cultural bonds which were created between the Orient and the Occident via the endeavors of the Orientalists. In a historical context, this study explores the influence of Persian literature on the development of English poetry particularly during the Romantic Period. It also designates that German Romanticism and American Transcendentalism were inspired by Oriental literature and philosophy, conveyed to them through the translated works. Accordingly, the significance of translation in transmitting literature and culture between nations is examined. Focusing on Sir William Jones as the counterexample of Said's prototype of Orientalists, the study investigates the influence of Jones' translations on European literary works during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England. This dissertation concludes that literature is man's universal and immortal legacy which is improbable to be colonized, contrary to Said' hypothesis. It also proves that some Orientalists devoted their life to transfer the literature and culture of the Oriental lands to the world, not to dominate them, but based on love and enthusiasm.

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Li, Jhih-Han, and 李芝函. "《Orientalism》：Edward W. Said and the Resistance to Western Colonial Discourse." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42974038772457878605.

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Hou, Yuan-Chun, and 侯元鈞. "“Orientalism”of Edward W. Said and its Implication to Curriculum Reform of Primary and Secondary Schools in Taiwan." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83037210984418985872.

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The purpose of this research is discovering the implication to curriculum reform of primary and secondary schools in Taiwan based on the concept of “Orientalism” raised by postcolonial critic Edward W. Said. First, researcher connect analyses of literary criticism of Edward W. Said such as “Travelling Theory” , ”Theory of Texts” , ”Secular Criticism” and “the Role of Intellectual” with criticism to issues about ideological domination, suppress of cultural hegemony and intergrowth of knowledge and power in “Orientalism”. Then, researcher conclude “Orientalism” as two core “strategy of textual representation” and “controlling of cultural hegemony”, and then searching for its enlightenment to curriculum reform of primarry and secondary schools in Taiwan. As for the scope of discussing to curriculum reform, researcher intent to focus it on the process of decision-making, ideas, nature, goals, content, organization, role of teachers, assessment and relationship between teacher and student. What engrave on my mind is making some reconstruction and suggestions after seriously criticizing and deconstructing.

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Sjöström, Viktor. "Profeten och den heliga skriften : En studie och analys av fyra religionsläroböcker mellan åren 1994-2014." Thesis, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-299593.

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Sammanfattning Målet med min studie är att undersöka och analysera fyra olika läromedel avsedda för högstadieskolan utifrån termen orientalism. Hur gestaltas Muhammed och koranen i de utvalda läroböckerna utifrån Edward W Saids teori och terminologi orientalismen. Den avgränsade perioden för detta arbete börjar med en lärobok från året 1994 och avslutas med en lärobok publicerad år 2014. De två andra läroböckerna som används i denna studie är publicerade 1999 och 2003. Debatten om islam som religion är i den moderna kontexten vanligt förekommande både i massmedia och i en politisk debatt. Skolans läromedel är många gånger den första källan eleven möter i arbetet med andra religioner där av granskas och analyseras läromedel och deras framställning av Muhammed och koranen utifrån Saids teorier om Orienten. Den konklusion jag når fram till utifrån denna undersökning är att det finns en viss skillnad mellan de fyra olika utvalda läromedlen och att det sker en förändring över tid mellan böckerna. Samt att den först publicerade läroboken som undersökts har ett annat språk och andra tolkningar om Muhammed och koranen jämfört med de tre andra läroböckerna som försöker gestalta Muhammed och koranen på ett mer nyanserat sätt.

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Fernandes, Rui André de Macedo. "Wenceslau de Moraes." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/33742.

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u a 1 de julho d e 1929. Marinheiro, escritor, d iplomata e orientalista são algumas das facetas que p o deremos asso ciar à p ersonalidade em questão, mas tal não basta. Falamos de um via jante p ortuguês, que p ela sua condição de marin heiro, ru mou ao exótico desenvolvendo uma paixão que se refletia numa vasta obra publicada. Esta paixão p elo exótico encontrou o seu ap ogeu no Japão, lo cal que el egeu como seu último. Estu dar a vida e a obra de Moraes obriga, numa primeira ab ordagem, a contextualizar historicamente o p erío do onde se insere com o ob jetivo de compreender de que forma é que o ambiente p olítico ou económico influenciou a vida de um jovem que decide enveredar p or uma carreira militar na Mari nha de Guerra Portuguesa. Posteriormente, ao fazer o retrato biográfico, imp õ e-se lançar um olh ar à obra que se revela como um guia imprescindível para p erceb er a vida do escritor. O seu p ercurso profissional é marcado p or uma intensa atividade no mar, caracterizado p or inúmeras façanhas que mereceram u m rasto de louvores e apreço p elos seus sup eriores. Ap esar de ainda ser recordado como um marinheiro exímio, o maior legado de Moraes será p ossí velmente a sua obra escrita. A obra d e Wenceslau, que inicialmente se ap onta como um meio para melhor compreender a sua vida, será p osteriormente analisada p or formar a traçar características gerais de um p onto de vista literário. O que nos leva a refletir num fenómeno que se apresenta como uma das problemáticas principais deste estudo, o “orientalismo”. Esta reflexão será alicerçada sobre a linha de p ensamento do autor Edward W. Said, o resp onsável p ela definição e o ap ontamento deste fenómeno como um instrumento para o imp erialismo e colonialismo
Wenceslau José de Sousa Moraes was b orn on May 30, 1854 and died on July 1, 1929. Sailor, writer, diplomat and orientalist are some of the asp ects that we can asso ciate with the ch aracter in question, but this is not enough. We sp eak of a Portuguese traveler, who, due to his condition as a s ail or, went to the exotic, developing a passion that was reflected in a vast published work. This passion for the exotic found its zenith in Japan, which he chose as his last. Studying the life and work of Moraes requires, in a first approach, to historically contextualize the p erio d in which it is ins erted in order to understand how the p olitical or economic environment influenced the life of a young man who decides to embark on a military career in the Portuguese Navy. Later, when making the biographical p ortrait, it is necessary to take a lo ok at th e work that reveals itself as an essential guide to understand the life of the writer. His career p ath is marked by an intense activity at sea, characterized by countless exploits that deserved a trail of praise and appreciation by his su p eriors. Although he is s till rememb ered as an accomplis hed sailor, Moraes’ greatest legacy will p ossibly b e his written work. Wenceslau’s written work, which initially p oints out as a means to b etter understand his life, will later b e analyzed in order to study general features from a literary p oint of view. Which leads us to reflect on a phenomenon that presents itself as one of the main problems of this study, the «Orientalism». This reflection will b e based on the line of thought of the au thor Edward W. Said, the on e resp onsible for defining and p ointi ng out th is phenomenon as an instrument for imp erialism and colonialis m.

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Gudova, Iu, and Ю. В. Гудова. "Массовое искусство и национальный миф: проблема взаимовлияния (на материале кинематографа США) : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/28650.

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MA paper is devoted to the researching of interaction between national myths and popular arts in American movies. The philosophical Ideas of G. Bodriyar, M. Kastels, E. Said, A. Kostina, K. Razlogov, and E. Shapinsky are in the basic of methodology. And anthropological ideas of Levi-Strouss, Ealiade, Meletinsky and Zhuladze are in the methodological foundation too. The paper consists from three parts. The specialty of contemporary cultural and social situation is analyzed in the first part of paper. The conceptual approaches to the definition of interaction between national identity and popular art are recovered in the second part. The third part of the paper is rewired the content and function of American’s myths in the American popular movies. The author gives conclusion that popular art represents national myths and therefore national identity is constructed by popular art.
Магистерская диссертация сосредоточена на взаимовлиянии национального мифа и массового искусства на примере кинематографа США. В качестве методологии исследования используется философско-культурологическая методология, представленная идеями Ж. Бодрийяра, М. Кастельса, А.В. Костиной, К.Э. Разлогова, Е.Н. Шапинской, Э. Саида, и других; культурно-антропологическая методология, выработанная К. Леви-Стросом, Е.М. Мелетинским, М. Элиаде, А. Цуладзе и другими. Работа состоит из трех глав. В первой главе рассматривается характеристика современной социокультурной ситуации, в которой существует массовое искусство. Во второй главе анализируются концептуальные походы к определению механизма взаимовлияния национальной идентичности и искусства. В третьей главе исследуется содержание американских национальных мифов и то, как они функционируют в американском массовом кино. В конце работы делается вывод, что массовое искусство репрезентирует национальные мифы и тем самым конструирует национальную идентичность.

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