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Epelde, Kathleen R. "Travel guidebooks to India a century and a half of orientalism /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20041220.122026/index.html.
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McGetchin, Douglas T. "The Sanskrit Reich : translating ancient India for modern Germans, 1790-1914 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3055791.
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Majeed, J. "Orientalism, Utalitarianism and British India : James Mill's 'The History of British India' and the romantic Orient." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234313.
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Bagchi, Kaushik. "Orientalism without colonialism? : three nineteenth-century German indologists and India /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487935573771214.
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Smith, Blake. "Myths of Stasis : south Asia, Global Commerce and Economic Orientalism in Late Eighteenth-Century France." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0043.
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Cette thèse analyse la place de l'Inde et des échanges commerciales franco-indiennes dans l'élaboration en la France du dix-huitième siècle de la notion orientaliste que l'Asie n'est pas capable des progrès économiquesThis thesis examines the place of India and of Franco-Indian commercial exchange in the construction in eighteenth-century France of the Orientalist conception that Asia is incapable of economic progress
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Dodson, Michael S. "Orientalism, Sanskrit scholarship, and education in colonial North India, ca. 1775-1875." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272104.
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Harrington, Jack Henry Lewis. ""No longer Merchants, but Sovereigns of a vast Empire" : the writings of Sir John Malcolm and British India, 1810 to 1833." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5798.
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This thesis analyses the works of Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) as key texts in the intellectual history of the formation of British India. It is concerned less with Malcolm's widely acknowledged role as a leading East India Company administrator and more with the unparalleled range of influential books that he wrote on imperial and Asian topics between 1810 and his death in 1833. Through the publication of nine major works, numerous pamphlets and articles and a few volumes of poetry, Malcolm established his reputation as an authority in three major areas. Firstly, the Sketch of the Political History of India (1811) and the posthumously published Life of Robert Lord Clive (1836) remained major sources on the history of the founding of the British empire in India for much of the nineteenth century. Through these histories, he wove the anxieties of the Company's solider-diplomats of the early nineteenth into the narrative of the Company's rise as an imperial power. With the History of the Sikhs (1810) and, to a far greater extent, the History of Persia (1815), Malcolm sealed his reputation as a path-finding orientalist making an early contribution to European knowledge of India's north-west frontier. Lastly, Malcolm's Memoir of Central India (1823), which analysed the history of the region from the rise of the Marathas to the British conquest in 1818, is one of the most sophisticated and politically significant examples of British efforts to construct an Indian past that accounted for British imperial control in the present. This study's detailed examination of his works provides an invaluable insight into how British imperial mentalities in the period before 1857 were shaped by the interplay between trends and events in India and Britain on the one hand and the competing historiographical and political traditions current among British imperial administrators on the other. It demonstrates that British thinking on India was far from unified and was often characterised less by a desire to formulate an ideology for rule – even if this was its eventual effect – and more by bitter divisions between imperial administrators. Malcolm's need to counter the arguments of his opponents among the Court of Directors in the decade after Governor General Wellesley's departure in 1806 and his resistance to more radical commentators on India like James Mill in the 1820s, shaped his writing. Malcolm's influence and the range of topics he wrote about make him an ideologue of empire and a pioneer of British orientalism and the historiography of British India. Malcolm's body of works is the most comprehensive and prominent example of how the British responded intellectually to their empire in India in the generation after the Trial of Warren Hastings and before the first Anglo-Afghan war.
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Conley, Kassandra Leighann. "Looking towards India: Nativism and Orientalism in the Literature of Wales, 1300-1600." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11440.
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After the conquest of 1282, Wales increasingly fell under the dominion of England and in 1535, the first Laws in Wales Act officially annexed the country. During this period of political and legal instability, Welsh men and women fought to regain independence, a struggle that led to the development of a nascent national identity. For many authors, this identity was fundamentally rooted in the topography of Wales and the mythical histories concerning the cultivation of its land. This interest in native mirabilia corresponded with a period of increased availability of English and continental geographical treatises and travelogues that provided Welsh authors with a new vocabulary for discussing wonder. Medieval and early modern Welsh authors incorporated these exotic geographies into their accounts of native landscapes in order to differentiate Wales from England and argue for a sense of Welsh cultural exceptionalism based in its alterity.Celtic Languages and Literatures
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Metze, Stefanie. "An imperial enlightenment? : notions of India and the literati of Edinburgh, 1723-1791." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=179528.
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This dissertation highlights the influence of the extension of Empire in India on Enlightenment in Scotland. It argues, consistently, that an ever increasing contact with the Eastern parts of Empire over the eighteenth century created productive tensions between the personal, material and intellectual worlds of the Edinburgh literati. Scottish thinkers stood in close contact to one another and congregated in the Select Society and the Poker Club. Beyond the domestic boundaries, they had practical and personal interests in contemporary events in the East Indies. All had relatives or acquaintances in India and were all correspondents of Sir John Macpherson, Governor-General of India (1785-6). The dissertation shows that a revision of civic humanism on the one hand and scientific Whiggism on the other, found their main dilemma in “luxury” and “despotism” respectively. Both of these concepts were intrinsically connected with the perception of India at the beginning of the eighteenth century. One of the outcomes of the literati’s personal and intellectual engagement with India was the different solutions for the regulation of Empire. Ferguson, following the tradition of civic humanism, argued for the importance of civic virtue in order to maintain Empire. His thoughts stood in stark contrast to Smith, Hume and particularly Robertson. Vigour, instead of civic virtue, needed to be developed and strengthened. No monolithic canon of how Empire could be sustained was developed by these men, but all were involved in squaring the circle of improvement through Empire. The constant interplay between domestic, cosmopolitan and imperial spheres suggests that Enlightenment had an imperial nature, which is highlighted in relation to the literati’s particular investigation of “luxury” and “despotism” and their positive perception of Nabobs. Moreover, the dissertation emphasises that Edinburgh associations can not only be viewed as pillars of Enlightenment in Scotland, but also as networks and the gateways to Empire from at least the 1760s. The evidence assembled suggests that men like Ferguson and Robertson were active players in a world which was intellectually and practically shaped by Empire.
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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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Kolekar, Pramila. "Dreamscapes: Blurred Realities and Blended Identities; India on the Nineteenth-century French Stage." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107939.
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Thesis advisor: Kevin NewmarkIndia featured in a large number of performances on the nineteenth-century French stage. The term “contact zones” coined by Mary Louise Pratt in her article “Arts of the Contact Zone” designates spaces where two cultures “meet, clash, and grapple with each other” (34). The nineteenth-century French stage functioned as an ideal contact zone, providing a dynamic forum for the construction of French and Indian identities. My corpus is selected to demonstrate the breadth and diversity of India as a trope in nineteenth-century theatrical performances. In the dissertation, I analyze the plays both as text and performance. In addition, I situate the plays within the context of their time. Theater reviews are an important tool in achieving this contextualization: they allow a play to be studied in situ, giving a glimpse of the social, political, and cultural circumstances surrounding the production. The effects of a turbulent political and social environment are studied by investigating shifts in audience reactions to the same play or to a similar one over a period of time. The study considers an author’s avowed intentions, as recorded in an accompanying preface, along with both the text of the play and the audience response chronicled in press reviews, to see if intention, expression, and reception coincide. The effort is to understand the play as a dynamic event that occurs simultaneously in two directions. On the one hand, the play is shaped by its environment; on the other, it works to inform and influence the audiences who witness it. The nuanced interaction between the Self and the Other is rendered more visible through this approach. With the support of colonial and post-colonial theories such as Orientalism, subalterneity, and hybridity, the issues that are disclosed in this analysis of nineteenth-century French theater are rendered current and relevant. The dissertation is composed of three main chapters. Each chapter is unified in theme, viz. Historical drama, Bayadères, and Sanskrit drama. Different plays with similar themes or different adaptations of the same play are compared to each other. Shifts in time and perspective are recorded, both in the creation as well as the reception of these plays. The treatment of stereotypes is studied in all three chapters. In addition, for each chapter, a specific issue that is particular to that section of the corpus is highlighted: problems of veracity in ostensibly factual historical accounts for Historical drama, the challenges of reconciling reality with imagination (contrasting the actual visit of Indian dancers in France to the theatrical representations of bayadères) for the chapter on bayadères, and challenges of translation for Sanskrit drama. This reveals the complex underpinnings of plays that could appear banal at first glance. The dissertation unfolds the manner in which the French contend with India in the role of the Other during the nineteenth century, when interest in India was at its peak in France. Even when reduced to a finite number of stereotypes, India is perceived as a space of excess; its complex and multifaceted nature is exacerbated by its size and distance from France. India is found to be overwhelming and beyond the reach of French possession, physical or ideological. India cannot be easily co-opted into French narratives of identity-formation: any construction of national, racial or cultural identity, whether of the French Self or the Indian Other, is shown to be unstable. Over the course of the nineteenth century, India reverts to being the place of myth and fantasy it has been since medieval times. Nevertheless, traces of India’s presence on the nineteenth-century stage linger in twenty-first century France in subtle but unmistakable ways
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Romance Languages and Literatures
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Bedel, Mathilde. "Mirabilia Indiae : voyageurs français et représentation de l’Inde au XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0212.
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Les récits des voyageurs, réputés pour leur caractère authentique, se présentent comme une source d’information véritable et de première main. Pourtant, l’étude littéraire de ces textes fait apparaître un ensemble de problématiques liées à l’écriture de cet ailleurs lointain mais déjà connu grâce aux témoignages des prédecesseurs antiques et médiévaux. Les interférences des différents genres littéraires réactualisent l’imaginaire d’une Inde des merveilles, pour une littérature à sensations fortes. La première partie interroge la mise en récit théâtralisée d’une des premières tentatives de classification humaine. Le voyageur apparaît alors comme soignant son auto-représentation, par rapport à laquelle se dessine le peuple indien, réparti selon les différentes castes perçues. La seconde partie s’intéresse à l’écriture d’une cartographie imaginaire construite à partir de trois pôles : ces derniers sont incarnés par trois figures prototypiques. Les mises en récit de ces personnages héroïques, en plus de s’inscrire dans une forme réaménagée du récit historique et/ou d’aventures, proposent une écriture du pouvoir en mettant au jour les intrigues de cour et autres histoires secrètes. La troisième partie confronte l’écriture de l’imaginaire avec sa mise en image. Il s’agit ici d’étudier la recréation d’une Inde comprise à travers le prisme chrétien mais aussi en réaction contre celui-ci. Ainsi l’élaboration d’un bestiaire indien, principalement contruit autour de grandes figures du panthéon hindou, donne aux voyageurs l’occasion d’interroger à la fois le rapport des indigènes avec leur religion et avec la natureThe stories of travellers, known for their authenticity, they are a source of first-hand and authentic information. However, the literary study of these texts reveals a series of problems linked to the writing of this distant elsewhere but already known thanks to the testimonies of the ancient and medieval predecessors. The interferences of the different literary genres update the imaginary of an India of wonders, to offer a literature with strong sensations. The first part questions the theatrical narrative presentation of one of the first attempts at human classification. The traveller then appears as a healer of his self-representation, in contrast to which the Indian people are drawn up, divided according to the different castes perceived. The second part is concerned with the writing of an imaginary cartography constructed from three poles. The latter are embodied by three prototypical figures. The narration of these heroic characters, in addition to being part of a revamped form of the historical narrative and/or adventures, proposes a writing of power by bringing to light court intrigues and other secret stories. The third part confronts the writing of the imaginary with its image setting. The aim here is to study the recreation of an India understood through the Christian prism, but also in reaction to it. Thus, the elaboration of an Indian bestiary, mainly built around large figures of the Hindu pantheon, gives travellers the opportunity to question both the relationship of the natives with their religion and with nature
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Chaudhuri, Rosinka. "Orientalist themes and English verse in nineteenth-century India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:737ba2e1-99f4-4abb-ac87-4e344be4d15c.
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This thesis demonstrates how a specific tradition of English poetry written by Indians in the nineteenth-century borrowed its subject matter from Orientalist research into Indian antiquity, and its style and forms from the English poetic tradition. After an examination of the political, historical and social motivations that resulted in the birth of colonial poetry in India, the poets dealt with comprise Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-31), the first Indian poet writing in English ; Kasiprasad Ghosh (1809-73), the first Bengali Hindu to write English verse; and Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-73), who converted to Christianity in the hope of reaching England and becoming a great 'English' poet. A subsequent chapter examines the Dutt Family Album (London, 1870) in the changing political context of the latter half of the century. In the Conclusion it is shown how the advent of Modernism in England, and the birth of an active nationalism in India, finally brought about the end of all aspects of what is here called 'Orientalist' verse. This area has not been dealt with comprehensively by critics; only one book, Lotika Basu's Indian Writers of English Verse (1933), exists on this subject to date. This thesis, besides filling the gaps that exist in the knowledge available in this area, also brings an additional insight to bear on the current debate on colonialism and literature. After Said's Orientalism (1978), a spate of theoretical work has been published on literary studies and colonial power in British India. Without restricting the argument to the constraints of the Saidian model, this study addresses the issues raised by these works, showing that a subtler reading is possible, through the medium of this poetry, of the interaction that took place in India between the production of literature and colonialism. In particular, this thesis demonstrates that although Orientalist poetry was in many ways derivative, it also evinces an active and developing response to the imposition of British culture upon India.
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Azalan, Meor Alif Meor. "Principiis rebellionis in India orientalis : taming British counterinsurgency in Malaya, 1944-1954." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3795/.
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This work dissects Britain's counter-insurgency campaign during the Malayan Emergency and her wider experience at decolonisation in Southeast Asia. The Darurat - as it is known in the local Malay language - is considered as the typical case of a successful modern-day counter-insurgency campaign. The conventional theoretical wisdom posits; that in order to win a counterinsurgency campaign, the force responsible for such a campaign must, similar to Malaya, embark upon a policy of ‘winning hearts and minds’. However, as more official colonial documents pertaining to the Emergency are uncovered and released to the public, the increasing publication of memoirs from individuals directly involved in the Emergency across the political spectrum, and the increased willingness of ex-insurgents as well as members of previously besieged communities affected by mass resettlement to come forward and share their accounts; there is ground to doubt the accuracy of our inherited and imbalanced knowledge of the Emergency along with the ‘lessons’ we have derived from it. This thesis has strengthened the argument, with an emphasis on Malay language and Jawi scripted sources, that; (1) through the accounts of native actors, both Malay and Chinese, the Malayan Emergency is an artefact of the earlier anti-Japanese experience during World War Two. And that (2) force which was used in the conduct of concluding the shooting war in 1954 was regarded as ‘exempted’ force wrapped in a grand narrative despite the on the-ground reality for the people.
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Tammita-Delgoda, Asoka SinhaRaja. "'Nabob, historian and orientalist' : the life and writings of Robert Orme (1728-1801)." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1991. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/nabob-historian-and-orientalist--the-life-and-writings-of-robert-orme-17281801(1b07b46e-f262-4424-b139-d268b416f66a).html.
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Gardner, Barbara J. "Speaking Voices in Postcolonial Indian Novels from Orientalism to Outsourcing." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/85.
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In Orientalism, Edward Said identified how the Westerner “spoke for” and represented the silent Orient. Today with the burgeoning call-center business with India, it seems that the West now wants the Orient to speak for it. But is the voice that Western business requires in India a truly Indian voice? Or is it a manipulation which is a new form of the silencing of the Indian voice? This dissertation identifies how several Postcolonial Indian writers challenge the silence of Orientalism and the power issues of the West through various “speaking voices” of narratives representative of Indian life. Using Julie Kristeva’s abjection theory as a lens, this dissertation reveals Arundhati Roy as “speaking abjection” in The God of Small Things. Even Roy’s novelistic setting suffers abjection through neocolonialism. Salman Rushdie’s narrative method of magic realism allows “speaking trauma” as his character Saleem in Midnight’s Children suffers the traumas of Partition and Emergency as an allegorical representation of India. Using magic realism Saleem is able to speak the unspeakable. Other Indian voices, Bapsi Sidhwa, Khushwant Singh, and Rohinton Mistry “speak history” as their novels carry the weight of conveying an often-absent official history of Partition and the Emergency, history verified by Partition surviror interviews. In Such a Long Journey, Mistry uses an anthrozoological theme in portraying issues of power over innocence. Recognizing the choices and negotiations of immigrant life through the coining of the word (dis)assimilation, Jhumpa Lahiri’s writings are analyzed in terms of a “speaking voice” of (dis)assimilation for Indian immigrants in the United States, while Zadie Smith’s White Teeth “speaks (dis)assimilation” as a voice of multiple ethnicites negotiating immigrant life in the United Kingdom. Together these various “speaking voices” show the power of Indian writers in challenging the silence of Orientalism through narrative.
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Serrott, Kyle Douglas. "Seeing Red: Settler Colonialism and the Construction of the “Indian Problem” in United States Federal Indian Law and Policy." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618249252083926.
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Pradittatsanee, Darin. "Spiritual quest, Orientalist discourse, and "assimilating power" : Emerson's dialogue with Indian religious thought in cultural context /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978259.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-335). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Perry, Nicole. "Karl May's Winnetou : the image of the German Indian, the representation of North American First Nations from an Orientalist perspective." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99741.
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Karl May is considered Germany's most published author of popular literature. His influence on generations of German youth cannot be overlooked. Winnetou is one of his major works and depicts the adventures of Old Shatterhand, the German immigrant, and his Blood Brother, the Apache Winnetou. Generations of children grew up reading their adventures and escaping in their imaginations to battle unsavoury Yankees as well as hostile tribes.May's descriptions of the First Nations of North America have aided in skewing the perception of the North American First Nations in Germany. This thesis aims to work with some of these misperceptions and explain how they came to be. Through the use of Edward Said's theory, Orientalism, which will be applied to Winnetou I-III, this thesis attempts to interpret the role of the European and the non-European, or the Other, within the context of the story. The power structure between the European and the non-European will be one of the main focuses. May's use of the Bible as the perceived 'right' way of dealing with situations and people in comparison to the Apache or Yankee way is an obvious exertion of European thought and control over the non-European way of life.
Winnetou is situated in a unique role in the power struggle between the European and the non-European. He is often seen as having mentalities and beliefs that come across as more European than non-European, and therefore places him in a unique situation, that of a Noble Savage, not a 'red devil'. It is exactly this perception of North American First Nations, that has survived many generations and still lends credit to Winnetou being called an 'apple Indian', red on the outside, white on the inside.
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Thapa, Anirudra. "The Indic Orient, nation, and transnationalism exploring the imperial outposts of nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture, 1840-1900 /." [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University, 2008. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-12052008-162349/unrestricted/Thapa.pdf.
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Mottais, Noël. "Les acteurs fascistes du dialogue Indo-Italien : l'exemple de Giuseppe Tucci (1922-1944)." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LORR0332/document.
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Peu connu aujourd’hui en France en dehors des cercles orientalistes, le nom de Giuseppe Tucci est en revanche en Italie toujours associé à l’Orient. Sa figure apparaît ainsi comme celle d'un médiateur entre l’Italie et l’Orient, objet de définitions concurrentes. Agent de la politique extérieure italienne en Inde, organisateur des séjours en Italie des nationalistes indiens, mis en scène par le régime fasciste, intellectuel instrumentalisé par le fascisme de Mussolini, théoricien reprenant des idées conformes à celles des intellectuels fascistes ? La question est de savoir dans quelle mesure Tucci s’est rallié au régime, dans quelle mesure il l’a soutenu. L’orientalisme tourné vers l’Inde a en outre été le terrain d’instrumentalisations particulières, liées aux théories « racistes ». Une bonne part de ce courant entretient avec l’antisémitisme nazi et fasciste des liens complexes. L’approche historique de l’itinéraire de Tucci ne se limite pas à ses actions au service du régime, telles que l’organisation du voyage de Gandhi, elle implique une analyse des textes qui font allusion aux questions raciales. La question de la quête de l’origine est bien présente dans sa démarche de voyageur et de savant. L’intérêt précoce pour les langues anciennes comme l’hébreu et le sanscrit confirme le caractère central de cette quête dans la démarche de Tucci. Fut-il porteur des théories racistes cherchant dans la linguistique des arguments opposant les peuples « aryens » aux peuples « sémitiques » ? A cet égard, il importe d’étudier précisément ce qui peut rapprocher et différencier Tucci de Julius Evola (1898-1974), en se fondant sur leurs écrits respectifs et sur leurs prises de position publiques et privéesHardly known today in France except among Orientalist circles, Giuseppe Tucci is in Italy associated with the Orient. He still appears as a mediator between East and West. Indeed, as an actor of Italian Foreign Policy in India, he organized travels to Italy for leading nationalists Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, in propagandist action in favor of Fascist Italy. Was he really a supporter of the Regime ? Was he only motivated by opportunistic reasons ? As a matter of fact, Indian Orientalism has been linked to racial theories that display complex links with Nazi and Fascist Anti-Semitism. An historical approach of Giuseppe Tucci’s life does not only deal with political actions for the regime, it implies to some extent an analysis of writings linked to “Race” as a topic of investigation. The Quest for the Origin was to be seen in his travels and in his scholarly approach of the East which shows his interest for old languages such as Hebrew and Sanskrit. Was he in favor of Race Theories seeking in linguistics, arguments opposing “Aryans" against "Semitic" people ? Did he share any common points with esoteric philosopher Julius Evola (1898-1974) ?
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Etter, Anne-Julie. "Les antiquités de l'Inde : monuments, collections et administration coloniale (1750-1835)." Paris 7, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA070063.
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Cette thèse examine les liens entre l'étude du passé et la mise en place et le fonctionnement de l'administration coloniale en Inde. Un processus d'inventaire, de description et de conservation des vestiges matériels de la civilisation indienne se développe au moment où l'East India Company (EIC) se transforme en puissance politique, gouvernant un nombre croissant de territoires du sous-continent. La multiplication des travaux sur les antiquités, encouragée par la création de l'Asiatic Society du Bengale, la fondation de musées à Londres et à Calcutta et l'instauration de mesures d'entretien et de réparation d'édifices en sont autant de manifestations. Les employés civils et militaires de l'EIC qui mènent des recherches antiquaires et collectionnent des objets (statues, inscriptions, monnaies, etc. ) sont au coeur de ce mouvement. Ils sont donc les protagonistes de cette étude, qui analyse également le rôle des informateurs, des assistants et des savants indiens, ainsi que celui de l'EIC en tant qu'institution. La présentation de la contribution des différents acteurs permet d'éclairer les méthodes et les concepts qui sous-tendent l'étude des antiquités indiennes, inspirés en partie de celle des antiquités européennes, mais aussi les finalités de l'exploration et de la conservation des monuments, dont les enjeux sont à la fois savants et politiques. Cette thèse se situe ainsi à la croisée de l'histoire coloniale, de l'histoire de l'orientalisme et de celle de l'antiquariatThis dissertation explores the relationship between the study of the past and the rise and functioning of colonial administration in India. Description and preservation of material remains of Indian civilization developed as the East India Company (EIC) became a political power in India, ruling a growing number of territories. Proliferation of works on antiquities, encouraged by the creation of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, foundation of museums at London and Calcutta, promotion of care and repair of selected buildings all attest to that process. Civil and military employees of the EIC who undertake antiquarian researches and collect objects (statues, inscriptions, coins, etc. ) lie at the heart of that movement. This study also details the role of Indian assistants, informants and scholars, as well as that of the EIC as an institution. Through an analysis of the contribution of those various actors, it throws light upon methods and concepts underlying investigation or Indian antiquities, partly inspired by that of European antiquities. It also examines the ends of exploration and preservation of monuments, which deal with both scholar and political spheres. This dissertation thus lies at the junction of colonial history, history of orientalism and that of antiquarianism
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Martino, Valentina. "Edizione critica dell' "Itinerario" di Ludovico de Vartema (1510)." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011ENSL0661.
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Le travail a consisté à réaliser l’édition commentée de l’Itinerario de Vartema (Rome,1510), compte-rendu écrit par Vartema à l’issue de son voyage, qui le mena de Venise aux Indes en passant par l’Arabie (1503-08). Bien que ce texte ait donné lieu à plusieurs éditions dans plusieurs langues européennes, il n’a en effet jamais fait l’objet d‘une édition critique. Le voyage eut lieu au moment où les grandes découvertes bouleversèrent l’image du monde: il s’agissait du premier voyage par voie de terre effectué par un occidental au moment où les Portugais créèrent la route commerciale maritime des épices. Vartema est un homme fascinant qui a endossé avec aisance des rôles très éloignés de la mentalité occidentale, nous laissant un document unique dans sa manière de reformuler son expérience. L’objet de la recherche se situe au carrefour de plusieurs disciplines: l’histoire littéraire, la philologie, la littérature de voyage, l’histoire de la géographie, du livre et des sciencesThe aim of this research is the preparation of an annotated critical edition of the de Ludovico de Vartema bolognese of Bologna (1st ed. Rome, 1510). This is a record written by Vartema on his way back from a journey which took him from Venice to the East Indies and through Arabia between 1503 and 1508. It gives an account of the first journey made by a western man after the Portuguese created their commercial empire. Although in the sixteenth century several editions of this work in many languages were issued, it has never before been the subject of a critical edition. Vartema’s Itinerario is the account of a charming man who was able to get inside the minds of people distant from the western mentality. He has left us a unique document since the way his experiences have been told is poised among many disciplines including: political philology, language history, text analysis, history and geography, science book history, travel literature
Copo del presente lavoro di ricerca è stata la realizzazione dell’edizione critica commentata dell’Itinerario de Ludovico de Vartema bolognese (Roma,1510). Si tratta del resoconto scritto da Vartema al ritorno dal suo viaggio, che lo portò da Venezia alle Indie orientali, passando per l’Arabia, tra il 1503 e il 1508. Si tratta del primo viaggio effettuato da un occidentale nel momento in cui i Portoghesi crearono il loro impero commerciale. Sebbene nel sedicesimo secolo questo testo abbia visto numerose edizioni in molte lingue, non è mai stato oggetto di un’edizione critica. Lo studio dell’Itinerario di Vartema - uomo affascinante che si cala facilmente in ruoli molto lontano dalla mentalità occidentale e che ci lascia un documento unico per il modo in cui l’esperienza vi è raccontata - si situa al centro degli sguardi incrociati di molte discipline: filologia politica, storia della lingua, analisi del testo, storia e geografia, storia del libro delle scienze, letteratura di viaggio
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Chetty, Raj G. "Versions of America : reading American literature for identity and difference /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1528.pdf.
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Kobor, Kelli Michele. "Orientalism, the construction of race, and the politics of identity in British India, 1800-1930." 1998. http://books.google.com/books?id=0b9GAAAAMAAJ.
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McLemore, Bethany Shae. "A German woman in Indian garb : German orientalism and ideal womanhood in Spohr’s Jessonda." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6234.
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Though Louis Spohr’s Jessonda is primarily remembered for being an early attempt at a continuous opera, its portrayal of India presents an interesting perspective of orientalism in Biedermeier Germany. German orientalism in the early nineteenth century was not motivated by imperialism, and thus differed fundamentally from French and British orientalism. Jessonda presents a unique opportunity to study these varying motivations, due to the story’s frequent translation and adaptation to different national stages: France, Germany, England, and America. A comparison of these possible sources for the opera reveals the authors’ varying political and/or cultural motivations. Spohr’s and his librettist’s alterations to the story were motivated in part by Biedermeier values, but also by Spohr’s classicist aesthetics. Spohr believed that an opera’s story should appeal to the everyman but music should remain elevated, untainted by popular elements-- more in line with Mozart than Spontini. The women portrayed in Jessonda, however, are constructed to particularly cater to Biedermeier values: they are stripped of their agency, left with only passive loyalty to Brahma and to the male characters. Jessonda (the character) may visually represent the exotic but, in line with Spohr’s aesthetics, she acts and sings like a European. Spohr’s musical and dramatic constructions enhance the Indian-versus-European and male-versus-female binaries, and illustrate common German conceptions of both the Indian and female Other.text
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Kuslová, Kristýna. "Divadelní hry Hélène Cixous pro Théâtre du Soleil." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-310735.
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The thesis deals with four plays written by French dramatist and theorist of feminism Hélène Cixous for the Parisian Théâtre du Soleil under the directorial guidance of Ariane Mnouchkine. The analysis focuses on three different perspectives - firstly on écriture feminine, defined in the 1970s by Cixous herself, secondly on exile studies, a field of literary criticism concerned with the writings of exiled authors and exile as a fundamental category of human existence, and lastly on the concept of orientalism developed in the 1970s by American literary historian of Palestinian origin Edward Said.
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Bartová, Nikola. ""Cožpak nejsem člověk a bratr?": Reprezentace otroctví v Západní Indii a abolicionistická rétorika na cestě k emancipaci." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-347885.
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This thesis is concerned with literature connected with the abolition of slavery in British colonies. The thesis will treat the topic of the abolitionist movement from the perspective of social, cultural and literary history from the beginnings until the abolition of slavery in British colonies in the Caribbean in 1833 with the Slavery Abolition Act. The thesis will focus on the discourse of race and slavery. The chosen authors represent different opinions and perspectives as the discussion will focus on sentimental poetry, travel writings as well as slave narratives. The chief aim is to identify and define the strategies of abolitionist discourse and the rhetorical practices which it employed especially in shaping the image of Africans and how the hegemonic discourse of sentimentalism influenced their writing. The first part of the thesis is concerned with establishing a theoretical background and the establishing of the literary traditions and customs of the eighteenth century, definition of the sentimental discourse and philosophies of the Enlightenment. This will be framed by a definition of Edward Said's "Orientalism" as well as Paul Gilroy's theory of the "Black Atlantic," which will enable us to define the space between Britain, Africa and the Caribbean, where the history of slavery of...
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Ming-HungHsu and 許敏虹. "Trading with the Devil: Resisting Sexism in Indian Culture and Compromising with American Orientalism in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50661857774230151465.
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Notwithstanding the rise of feminism, de-colonialism, and other theoretical movements of rebelling against the superior, many scholars claim that the subalterns cannot speak for themselves and that other people cannot speak for them by appropriating those theories. Jasmine is written in such a context to prove that people who are not recognized as the subalterns can also try to speak for themselves. In Chapter One, I contrast Spivak’s query of speaking for others with Linda Martín Alcoff’s argument of advocating speaking for others to demonstrate that though Jasmine’s existence for Mukherjee is a way to speak for others, it should have its positive meanings for the subaltern. Even if Jasmine is written to speak for subalterns, it could be a valuable contribution on behalf of the oppressed, but not through misunderstanding them or stemming from an intention to discredit India or America. Aside from concerning about the issue of speaking for others, I also try to seek a proper definition of “American Orientalism” based on Mae M Ngai’s and Nathaniel Deutsch’s research. Chapter Two explores Jasmine’s intention to become an American just for escaping Sexism in Indian cultureand her resistance against American Orientalism by reversing the position between the Subject and the Other become essence. Having no concern for her original identity, Jasmine trades her Indian identity for the justification of being a good woman in America. However, being an immigrant woman from the Third World in America forces Jasmine to confront American Orientalism. Finally, she chooses to resist and meanwhile compromise it instead of going back to India. In Chapter Two, Edward Said’s Orientalism and Homi Bhabha’s concept of hybridity are used to be my approach to analyze Jasmine’s resistance and compromise. Finally, in Chapter Three, I strive to prove that Jasmine’s choice suggests her hope of equality for everyone, and illustrates Mukherjee’s hope of creating a possibility of equality for the subalterns too. Although Jasmine does not realize her dream of equality at the end of the story, her choice of hugging with Taylor still suggests a ray of hope for everyone to get the possibility of equality.
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Cheddie, Stephanie. "Being "brown" in a small white town : young Guyanese women negotiating identities in Canada." 2005. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=362562&T=F.
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