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Cristofi, Renato Brancaglione. "O orientalismo arquitetônico em São Paulo - 1895 - 1937." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-20122016-152110/.
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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo central a compreensão do Orientalismo Arquitetônico em São Paulo, entre 1890 à 1937. Almeja-se por assim, entender a historicidade deste fenômeno, desde a incorporação do vocabulário arquitetônico até a constituição de um diversificado, heterogêneo e particularizado campo social de produção pelas ruas da cidade. Leva-se em conta, como motivos definidores de sua vivência cultural: seus agentes-produtores, seus interlocutores sociais, seus sentidos e signos sociais nas especificidades da São Paulo da Primeira República. O que para além das características e variações de produção formal e da incorporação e interpretação de repertórios orientalistas-arquitetônicos, passa diretamente pela interação com as práticas sociais e tensões da cidade. Assim, depositamos a compreensão nas manifestações paulistanas da arquitetura orientalista, através do entendimento da arquitetura como elemento de representação de seus agentes - proprietários e construtores - dentro de suas redes de sociabilidade e campo de possibilidades. Tendo em vista, especialmente, o papel de afirmação, distinção e apropriação de vínculos simbólicos e de linguagens com esse imaginário \"oriental\" sobre o outro expressos em palacetes. Na aceitação de uma imagem edulcorada, reconhecível e auspiciosa de si, no caso de seus proprietários e viventes, e de vitrine de arte e de ofício de seus variados artífices-construtores. No entendimento das especificidades do caso paulistano enquanto fenômeno marcado pela convivência entre a incorporação de um estilo de arquitetura e a apropriação de sua \"imagem\" orientalista por imigrados árabes e andaluzes radicados em São Paulo, naquilo que aponta para significados e vínculos de identidades e alteridades latentes.This dissertation aims at understanding Architectural Orientalism in São Paulo between 1890 and 1937. The aim is to understand the historicity of this phenomenon, from the incorporation of the architectural vocabulary to the constitution of a diversified, heterogeneous and particular social field The streets of the city. They take into account, as defining factors of their cultural experience: their agents-producers, their social interlocutors, their senses and social signs in the specifics of São Paulo of the First Republic. What goes beyond the characteristics and variations of formal production and the incorporation and interpretation of orientalist-architectural repertoires, goes directly through the interaction with the social practices and tensions of the city. Thus, we place understanding in the Paulistan manifestations of Orientalist architecture, through the understanding of architecture as an element of representation of its agents - owners and builders - within their networks of sociability and field of possibilities. Especially considering the role of affirmation, distinction and appropriation of symbolic links and languages with this \"oriental\" imaginary on the other expressed in palaces. In the acceptance of a sweetened, recognizable and auspicious image of itself, in the case of its owners and living, and showcase of art and craft of its various craftsmen-builders. In the understanding of the specificities of the paulistano case as a phenomenon marked by the coexistence between the incorporation of a style of architecture and the appropriation of its Orientalist \"image\" by Arab and Andalusian immigrants living in São Paulo, in what points to meanings and ties of identities and alterities Latent
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Khosravi, Mojgan. "Shirin Neshat: A Contemporary Orientalist." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/73.
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This thesis analyzes Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah photographs by exploring key socio-political events that have shaped Iranian history since the reign of Cyrus the Great, ca. 600 B.C. Since Neshat’s photographs have been largely intended for a Western audience, it is important to explore the concept of colonialism that has created East/West polarities and so greatly influenced our modern era. This paper intends to demonstrate that Neshat’s images perpetuate Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism, which allocates the Oriental to an inferior position vis-à-vis his Occidental counterpart. For a Western audience, Neshat’s consistent use of the Muslim veil, illegible Persian calligraphy, and guns symbolizes Islam’s violence and degeneracy; additionally, these elements position the Muslim woman as a subaltern entity in an archaic society. As a result, the Iranian Muslim woman remains restricted by her social, cultural, and religious praxis, as well as by Neshat’s formal and contextual depiction of her.
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Schnell, Andréa Elizabeth. "Gertrude Bell : an Orientalist in context." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112515.
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This thesis is about the life and work of Gertrude Bell, a British woman born in the late nineteenth century, whose extensive knowledge of Middle East cultures and people won her a job as the Oriental Secretary in Iraq after World War One. Modern historians, including Toby Dodge and Edward Said, consider Bell to be an irredeemable orientalist, one whose work is only ethnocentric and essentialist. Using the work of Billie Melman and Mohja Kahf, my aim is to contextualize Bell's work, and to see if, given the various circumstances in which she worked, a more sympathetic reading is not possible, and if perhaps Said and Dodge are not sometimes guilty of essentialism. I will also examine Said's theories in Orientalism, and though this thesis is in no way an attempt to discredit Said's work, I wish to pose a question; if one can take a small piece of the Orientalist puzzle (Bell's work) and shows that it differs from Said's description, does this undermine the idea of orientalism as a cohesive body of ideas?
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Naimi, Mohammed Nour. "T.E. Lawrence and the Orientalist tradition." Thesis, University of Essex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293424.
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Larsson, Emelie. "Orientalisk institution eller institutionaliserad orientalism? : En arkivvetenskaplig studie av Carolina Redivivas orientaliska handskriftssamling." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-253477.
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This thesis aims to shed light on the collection of Oriental manuscripts at the Uppsala University Library Carolina Rediviva and how the collection is a part of the collective memory. The main question which is central for this thesis is: have orientalism and structures of power influenced the acquisition, arrangement and methods of accessability regarding the Oriental manuscripts? If yes, in what way and why? If no, how has this been avoided? The theoretical framework consists of four approaches: phenomenology, sociology of knowledge, orientalism and power which are applied to the archival concept of collective memory. The main source of material consists of three parts: the historical texts which gives an informational framework regarding the time and place in which the manuscripts were collected, the catalogues in which the manuscripts are described and the transcripted interviews alongside correspondence. Methodologically the thesis is based upon a qualitative method which also partly makes up the foundation for the main material. The methods used are interviews and text studies of manuscript catalogues, historical texts and exhibition catalogues. The usage of manuscript catalogues was, due to the limited time, restricted to one which is written in English, as for the informants they are limited to three. The result of this study shows that the historical foundation on which the Oriental manuscript collection came into existance rests on a basis consisting of orientalism and power structures. This foundation is somewhat reproduced in time and in some ways current regarding the arrangement and methods of accessability both in historical and contemporary approaches.
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Arnold, Raphael. "William Jones : ein Orientalist zwischen Kolonialismus und Aufklärung /." Würzburg : Ergon, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39995705w.
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Johnson, Maya Ayana. "Harem Fantasies and Music Videos: Contemporary Orientalist Representation." W&M ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626527.
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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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Freye, Andreas [Verfasser]. "Emil Kautzsch (1841–1910) : Alttestamentler und Orientalist / Andreas Freye." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1173658270/34.
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Maatouk, Stefan. "Orientalism - A Netflix Unlimited Series : A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the Orientalist Representations of Arab Identify on Netflix Film and Television." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43793.
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Orientalism was a term developed by post-colonial theorist Edward Said to describe the ways in which Europeans, or the West, portrayed the Orient as inferior, uncivilized, and wholly anti-Western. Netflix Inc., the world’s largest subscription-based streaming service, which as of 2018, expanded its streaming venue to over 190 countries globally, is the wellspring of knowledge for many people. Through the multimodal critical discourse analysis of 6 Netflix films and television programmes (Stateless, Gods of Egypt, Messiah, Al Hayba, Sand Castle, and Fauda) the study examines the extent to which the streaming giant is culpable in the reproduction of Orientalist discourses of power, i.e., discourses which facilitate the construction of the stereotyped Other. The results have shown that Netflix strengthens, through the dissemination and distribution of symbols and messages to the general population, the domination and authority over society and its political, economic, cultural, and ideological domains. Using Norman Fairclough’s approach to critical discourse analysis combined with a social semiotic perspective, this study endeavours to design a comprehensive methodological and theoretical framework which can be utilized by future researchers to analyse and critique particular power dynamics within society by exposing the dominant ideological world-view distortions which reinforce oppressive structures and institutional practices.
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Kelso-Marsh, Caleb. "It's Chinatown: Orientalist discourse and the city in the noir tradition." Thesis, Kelso-Marsh, Caleb (2015) It's Chinatown: Orientalist discourse and the city in the noir tradition. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/27071/.
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This thesis provides an analysis of the films Chinatown (1974) and Blade Runner (1982) on the basis of three characteristics. Both films stem from the tradition of film noir. While there is debate over the use of the term as a genre category, it is widely agreed to refer to a specific period of cinema between 1940 and the late 1950s from which these two films draw stylistic inspiration. One way in which this influence is evident is in Chinatown and Blade Runner’s use of cityscape. Both films are set in LA, a city in which the majority of traditional film noirs are also set. It is my argument that in their portrayal of LA, Chinatown and Blade Runner present a highly Orientalised cityscape in which Oriental motifs function as signifiers of urban decay. Such a means of representation is not unique to these films but rather stems from traditional film noir.
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Abdel-Naim, Samir A. "Orientalism in transit : orientalist discourse and post-colonial theory in literary representation of Eastern Europe in Olivia Manning's The Balkan trilogy and The Levant trilogy." Thesis, University of Reading, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494775.
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This thesis 'Orientalism in Transit' examines the literary-cultural representation of Eastern Europe within the discourse of Orientalism as pioneered by Edward Said and, subsequently, by other post-colonial theorists. It, thus, aims to push the boundaries of postcolonial theory beyond its conventional literary-critical landscape. The thesis investigates the complexity and the ambivalence of the place of Eastern Europe in some literary-cultural texts, with particular attention to The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. Eastern Europe emerges as a paratext, a place that is represented paradoxically as in and out of Europe. The thesis shows how Eastern Europe is subjected to a process of othering. This process, I argue, is not completely dissimilar to the Orientalising of the Saidian Orient. Ideas and concepts of otherness, gender and gendered identities, hybridity, and language are key to my analysis.
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Bryce, Derek. "Turkey and Western subjectivity : Orientalist ontology and the occlusion of Ottoman Europe." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518237.
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This thesis takes up what is perceived by the author to be a lacuna in Edward W. Said's (1978) study, Orientalism. It is argued that so over-determined is Said's focus on the political, aesthetic and intellectual Western 'Orientalising' of the Arab-Islamic Middle East and North Africa that specific attention is insufficiently directed to the case of the principal imperial state in the region, the Ottoman Empire and its successor, the Turkish Republic. The study begins by exploring the work of Said's principle theoretical source, Michel Foucault specifically as it pertains to the history of the formation of subjectivities in those territories now understood to include 'Europe' and 'the West' and the particular implications for the formulation of representations of those regions understood to constitute the, principally Islamic, Orient. The study then reengages with Said's critique of Oriental ism, and associated literature, in close parallel with Foucault's history of the epistemic formulation of 'Western' subjectivities. A further narrowing of focus then occurs with a discursive history of Western representations of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic within the framework provided by the earlier analyses of Foucault and Said's writing. It is argued that a unidirectional Western discursive formation vis-a-vis the Ottoman and Turkish milieus has not been in evidence. Finally, a Foucauldian discourse analysis of contemporary UK newspaper and commercial tourism texts that take Turkey as their ostensible object is conducted, suggesting the existence of a contemporary discursive formation that renders Turkey and the Ottoman past as an abstract device for the valorization of 'Western' and 'European' subjectivities. It is further argued that a disavowal of the constitutive presence of an Ottoman Turkish 'Europeanness' is necessary to maintain the ontological stability of that Western subj ectivity.
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Haber, Peter. "Zwischen jüdischer Tradition und Wissenschaft : der ungarische Orientalist Ignác Goldziher (1850-1921) /." Köln : Böhlau, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41016656j.
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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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Peernajmodin, Hossein. "Orientalist representations of Persia in the works of Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Moore and Morier." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/56/.
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This study aims at investigating the representations of Persia in a number of canonical and non-canonical texts in English literature. The theoretical framework comes from Edward Said’s analysis of orientalism. It is argued that the case of Persia instances the heterogeneous and striated character of orientalism (‘representations’ rather than ‘representation’ in the title). It is shown that while a number of relatively similar set of motifs and topoi, mainly derived from classical tradition and contemporary travel writing, circulate in the works of the three Renaissance authors included (Spenser, Marlowe, Milton), they are differently inflected and serve different thematic and ideological purposes. It is also suggested that the somewhat nascent orientalism of these authors develops into a more fully-fledged one in Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh where a basically Romantic notion of Persia as an exotic land is overridden by its construction as a realm fallen to foreign domination and cultural dispossession so as to displace the poet’s radical political views. Finally, it is shown how the motifs and topoi teased out in the analysis of the matter of Persia in the works of the authors preceding James Morier find their characteristic form and their most effective articulation in his fiction, especially the Hajji Baba novels which arrogate the representation of the ‘real’ Persia. Central to the analysis is the point that though Said’s theorisation of orientalism is immensely useful, and essential, to any consideration of the orientalist canon, issues such as masquerading and displacing as well as the specificities of each text, of its context, and of the object of representation, compound the notion of orientalism as merely a mode of Western domination and hegemony.
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Taylor, Kathleen. "The creation of a legendary Orientalist : Sir John Woodroffe as 'Arthur Avalon' in Calcutta." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1998. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28512/.
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The thesis studies the collaboration between Sir John Woodroffe and his Bengali friend Atal Bihari Ghose. Together they created the pseudonymous orientalist Arthur Avalon who produced a considerable volume of works on Tantra from 1913 onwards, and brought about a revolution in attitudes to this previously despised branch of the Hindu religion. Woodroffe became identified with Avalon in the public eye, but Ghose was Woodroffe's chief source of the textual knowledge in which 'Arthur Avalon' appeared to be deeply versed. I try to assess Woodroffe's own relationship to Sanskrit and to the texts, and highlight his very extensive use of secondary sources and the knowledge of other Indian people besides Ghose. The thesis also focuses on Woodroffe's social identity in Calcutta which formed the context in which he 'was' Arthur Avalon. To a very unusual degree for someone with a high position under the empire, Woodroffe the High Court Judge of Calcutta Indianized himself, sometimes wearing Indian dress in social or religious contexts, but above all absorbing the world of the Bengali intellectuals of his time, among whom his popularity was widely attested. He had his critics, but he also had an enthusiastic coterie of admirers who were attracted by his Indian nationalism, to which his Tantric studies and supposed Sanskrit learning formed an important adjunct. He can be placed, then, alongside other prominent British supporters of nationalism of the time, such as Annie Besant, Nivedita, and C.F. Andrews. But Woodroffe possibly entered even more deeply into Hinduism (for a time at least), for he is reported to have taken initiation from a Tantric guru and to have practised Tantric sdhani in some form. Best known for The Serpent Power, the book which introduced Kundalini yoga to the west, Woodroffe and Ghose turned the image of Tantra around, from that of a despised magical and orgiastic cult, into a refined spiritual philosophy which greatly enhanced the attraction of Hinduism to later generations of Westerners. This thesis also studies Avalon's 'apologetic' themes by which he made Tantra, first acceptable, then fashionable.
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Sutton, Summer Stephanie. "Implications of "Neo-Orientalist" conservation in Fez, Morocco : need for an innovative non-profit alternative." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72875.
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Thesis (S.M. in Architecture Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The exotic and mystical image of Morocco has been imbedded in the minds of outsiders even before the French protectorate was established in the early 20th century. Many countries whose modern history has its origins in an outside hegemonic power tend to be ambivalent towards the impact of the colonizer's continued presence in the contemporary culture. Morocco, for example, has grown to embrace the foreign interest in its exotic world and now even encourages the oriental depictions of its country in order to increase foreign private investment, ultimately to preserve the historic heritage of the city. The result of this preservation strategy is a paradoxical urban fabric of enhancement and atrophy made apparent in the architectural disparity between modern developments by foreign investors and the often dilapidated locally owned riads. This mixture of urban divergences also adds a special character to the city, which would make anyone question the need to intervene, but I will argue that the identity and sustainability of the heritage city is ultimately in question. Through research and interviews with foreign investors, developers and local property owners in Fez, this thesis will identify the unfolding implications and opportunities of the current riad restoration movements in the city. It will evaluate non-profit alternatives for architectural conservation. The outcome of this research will establish the basis for ARCHeritage, a non-profit organization aimed to direct the future development of the city using historically appropriate design standards as well as micro-financing incentives for the renovation of locally owned property in order to help local businesses keep up with the modern forces of development in Fez.
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Bergsten, Lisa. "Evil Monsters and Machines : A Techno-Orientalist Perspective on Threat Perception in the United Kingdom." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9697.
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This thesis looks at the construction of China as a security threat in the United Kingdom, through the theoretical lens of techno-Orientalism. The main argument is that techno-Orientalist ideas influence the Western perception of China as a security threat, which leads to the creation of certain fears regarding China which affects the identity creation of both the United Kingdom and China. Techno-Orientalism shows how the West perceives itself as losing its grip on modernity, and thus the future; the East is being perceived as the producers of technology which lead to the opposite of the desired Western liberal humanism. Thus, the East is on its way to take over modernity and turn it into a technological oppressive future. These ideas influence how the United Kingdom perceives China as a security threat, and this is shown through a Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis of debates in the British Parliament.
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McFarland, Kelly M. "All About the Wordplay: Gendered and Orientalist Language in U.S.-Egyptian Foreign Relations, 1952-1961." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1279302593.
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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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Hesslind, Hazzel. "Synen på de forna amerikanska högkulturerna i grundskolans läroböcker." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-49989.
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Patel, Shaista. "Legalizing the racialization of Muslim : an anti-Orientalist discourse analysis of the Anti-terrorism Act of Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31994.
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The central argument in this research is that the knowledges produced through the Antiterrorism Act naturalize the Orientalist construction of male Muslim bodies as threats to the nation, while simultaneously legitimizing the Canadian nation as white. This study disrupts the binary of the security versus civil liberties debates surrounding the dominant discourses about the Anti-terrorism Act. Using race, space and the law as critical tools of analysis, I examine the Orientalist rationalities underpinning the successful mobilization of the Antiterrorism Act as a "juridical discourse" of the Canadian nation. I read for the racialized power in the Act in order to argue that the seemingly neutral language of the Act disguises the way it represents the Orientalist construction of male Muslim bodies as inherently violent, and as a threat to the spaces of the white nation. Within this discussion, I also examine how the Orientalist imagining of Muslim women's bodies has been deployed by the Canadian state to reify the image of Muslim man as 'barbaric' and 'uncivilized'. I situate my analysis of the Act within the broader socio-political history of colonized Canada to argue that the Anti-terrorism Act is part of the historically racist and exclusionary discourses of the nation built on stolen land where mythologies of white supremacy are still rampant as official narratives of the nation.Education, Faculty of
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Gill, Jagvinder. "Re-oriented Britain : how British Asian travellers and settlers have utilised and reversed Orientalist discourse 1770-2010." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35727/.
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Beginning with Edward Said's seminal text, I will question the assumption of Orientalism as a universal and didactic discourse that was conducted exclusively from the West to and for the East. Said's overarching condemnation of Orientalism as an exclusively Western hegemonic structure overlooks the paradigm that Indians were not just collaborative producers of the Orientalist text but selective readers as well. I will argue that the contribution made by the influx of colonised people from the periphery to the colonial centre from the eighteenth century onwards has historically been overlooked. Indian Orientalisms developed along their own particular axes by both utilising and reversing Orientalisms. Through this discursive utilisation, Indians were able to formulate responses to the dominant ideologies of Orientalism and as a consequence created new forms of discourse, both literary and historical. My thesis aims to illustrate that Indians, both in the colony and the metropole, were active and not passive agents in their negotiations of colonial as well as post-colonial space. This legacy needs to be recognised, as it continues to resonate and pose questions in contemporary times where the success of multicultural states in an increasingly globalised world is of paramount importance. Generically, I have adopted non-fiction as the best form in which to convey these hidden histories. Autobiographies, diaries, letters, memoirs and travelogues establish the fluidity and imaginative endeavour that existed between the colony and the metropole. These historical documents illuminate a deeply contested colonial and post-colonial world, where colony became home and home could become the colony. Ultimately, this project aims to identify the Orient within Britain itself and also argue that Indian travellers and settlers have engaged in similar "Orientalising" projects to render Britain intelligible for the Oriental mind, in ways that deconstruct the conventional Orientalist power relations associated with not only the high colonial period but also the pre and post colonial eras.
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Bijdiguen, Loubna. "Colonial and Orientalist veils : associations of Islamic female dress in the French and Moroccan press and politics." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/14844/.
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The veiled Muslimah or Muslim woman has figured as a threat in media during the past few years, especially with the increasing visibility of religious practices in both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts. Islamic dress has further become a means and technique of constructing ideas about the ‘other’. My study explores how the veil comes to embody this otherness in the contemporary print media and politics. It is an attempt to question constructions of the veil by showing how they repeat older colonial and Orientalist histories. I compare and contrast representations of the dress in Morocco and France. This research is about how Muslimat, and more particularly their Islamic attire, is portrayed in the contemporary print media and politics. My research aims to explore constructions of the dress in the contemporary Moroccan and French press and politics, and how the veil comes to acquire meanings, or veil associations, over time. I consider the veil in Orientalist, postcolonial, Muslim and Islamic feminist contexts, and constructions of the veil in Orientalist and Arab Nahda texts. I also examine Islamic dress in contemporary Moroccan and French print media and politics. While I focus on similarities and continuities, I also highlight differences in constructions of the veil. My study establishes the importance of merging and comparing histories, social contexts and geographies, and offers an opportunity to read the veil from a multivocal, multilingual, cross-historical perspective, in order to reconsider discourses of Islamic dress past and present in comparative perspective.
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Balakireva, Victoria. "The Mah Jong Game of Life : Storytelling, Identity and Orientalist Discourse in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45260.
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This project examines the connection between the representations of Chinese American women and the Orientalist discourse, as depicted in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Using a deconstructive and intersectional approach, the project focuses on four interconnected constituents that regulate the novel’s main structural and thematic elements: Narrative Structure; Mother-Daughter Relationships; Language, Writing and Identity; and Feminist Affirmations. The project’s aim is to understand the logic of the novel’s representation by juxtaposing and analyzing the contrasting arguments within each of the sections. Though somewhat inconclusive, this project addresses the ambiguity of Tan’s work in hopes of expanding the critical understanding of the novel.
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Elgamri, Elzain. "Islam in the British broadsheets : how historically-conditioned orientalist discourses inform representations of Islam as a militant monolithic entity." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2005. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/92w4y/islam-in-the-british-broadsheets-how-historically-conditioned-orientalist-discourses-inform-representations-of-islam-as-a-militant-monolithic-entity.
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From the Iranian revolution in 1979 to the London underground suicide bombings on the 7th of July 2005, the image of Islam as a militant anti-Western faith featured dominantly in the global mass media. This thesis examines the claim that the Western media representation of Islam, the second largest religion in the world with over one billion followers, is predominantly negative and demonizing. Current debates attribute this demonizing and reductive representation to the historically polarised relationship between Islam the West. Central to this argument is that the Western media in general, and the press in particular, tend to report an incomplete fragment of a rather complex situation, and represent the acts of Islamic militant movements and groups as an archetype of Islam. Few researchers used qualitative means to address the issue of representation of Islam in the media. This thesis investigates the representation of Islam in three British dailies, selected for their political different standpoints, and asks to what extent this representation is influenced by the historically conditioned Orientalist discourses that seek to construct and maintain hegemonic perceptions of Islam. The thesis argues that Islam and Muslim societies are a highly diverse reality, which is not confined only to extremism, confrontation, violence, terrorism and antagonism towards everything Western and challenges the monolithic approach that reinforces blanket generalisations, stereotypes and views of Islam/Muslims, based on the common perception of Islam as rooted in the West's self-definition as the negative `Other'. Using discourse analysis, the research seeks to deconstruct the selected news reports in order to highlight what was actually covered, and how news stories were framed and knowledge of Islam was generally produced through discourse(s) and point out that such representations are informed by specific relations of power.
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Barbo, Adrianne Marie. "From Post-Cards to Stand-Up: Cross Cultural Representations of the Veil in France and the Maghreb." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436979499.
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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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Gradholt, Christian. "”Hvad vilja orientalisterne?” : Idéer och konflikter vid den åttonde internationella orientalistkongressen i Stockholm och Kristiania 1889." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Idéhistoria, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-40547.
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Den här uppsatsen undersöker den åttonde internationella orientalistkongressen i Stockholm och Kristiania 1889, efter vilken den vetenskapliga disciplinen orientalistik och dess internationella relationer och möteskultur ställdes under omförhandling. Genom att lansera en i dessa sammanhang ny och välkomnande hållning gentemot icke-européer orsakade kongressens generalsekreterare Carlo Landberg en konflikt med de orientalister som strävade efter att behålla kongressens tydligt europeiska och vetenskapliga prägel. Ytterligare en orsak till konflikt var den karaktär av utställning och spektakel som kongressen ansågs ha. Inledningsvis var konflikten ideologisk men kom senare att ta nationella uttryck, främst genom konkurrensen mellan franska och tyska orientalister. Tyskarna var i stor majoritet vid kongressen, och hade dessutom besegrat Frankrike i krig mindre än 20 år tidigare. Undersökningen visar att konfliktens olika sidor mycket väl kunde vara överens om allmänna uppfattningar gällande de så kallade ”österlänningarnas” icke-vetenskapliga karaktärer och låga vetenskapliga förmågor, och att konflikten snarare gällde i vilken utsträckning själva orientalistkongresserna skulle ha som uppgift att åtgärda denna ”österlänningarnas” brist på vetenskaplighet. När ett särskilt kongressutskott mot slutet av kongressen öppnar för att förlägga nästkommande kongress i ”Orienten” svarar franska och engelska orientalister, som inte fick vara med i utskottet, först med en skarp protest och senare med att hålla en mot-kongress i London. Gällande detta visar undersökningen att detta troligen grundade sig på en prestigeförlust för fransmännen, som var de första som höll i en orientalistkongress, och en engelsk strävan efter att styra kongressernas innehåll, bland annat att göra handeln till ett ämne för förhandlingarna.
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Rasul, K. M. "The archaeology of history : An analytical study examining the strategy of the historical construction of the images and concepts of the other in the context of colonialist/orientalist discourse." Thesis, University of Essex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380557.
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Gewider, Rabia Saad. "Libya in the modern Orientalist world-system : a critical analysis of English Language acquisition (ELA) as a factor in Libya's new developmental strategy." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10621.
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This thesis is a critical examination of the „new vision‟ strategies that the Libyan government undertook in order to promote the deeper integration of the Libyan economy into the global economy of the Modern Orientalist World-System (MOWS). This process has been taking place since the lifting of the trade embargo on Libya by President Bush in April 2004. A crucial part of this new vision strategy was the promotion of human capital development amongst the Libyan population and with a particular emphasis upon English Language Acquisition (ELA). The argument, derived from neo-liberal thought, is that for Libya to transform itself it must embrace neo-liberal ideas that will see the government adopt the role of the enabling state, preparing Libyans for employment in a newly established private sector. ELA, the learning of what is called „global English‟, is the central part of the new vision human capital development goals. The assumption here is that by developing the English language skills of Libyans it will enhance their job prospects with foreign firms arriving in Libya. This strategy is being pursued in the aftermath of a state directed ban on the learning of English that was first decreed in 1986 and the consequences of which placed a significant obstacle in the way of the immediate employment prospects of a generation of young Libyan graduates. If the state developmental strategy now embraced by the Libyan government is to be successful then it must promote the rapid improvement in the second language skills of its young people (specifically „global English‟) if they are to take advantage of the opportunities offered by a newly opened economy. However, this strategy is fraught with dangers for the government as liberalising the Libyan economy weakens the control of the state over society. Thus the thesis addresses a number of key questions regarding the relationship between human capital (language skills) and the sociology of development; of human capital as a concept in the „modern Orientalist world-system‟; and the changing nature of state-society relations in Libya as the government attempts to integrate it more firmly into the MOWS. To what extent can the Libyan government transform its economy and society in a way that enhances its position in the MOWS rather than simply rendering it more dependent upon the power of the core?
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Sun, Ying, and Bin Yu. "Images of China : An Empirical Study of Western Tourist Material." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ekonomi och it, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4384.
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This thesis aims to explore and describe the images of China in the Western tourist material. There is much literature talking about images of China; however, among the existing scholarship so far few have investigated from the angle as we do. We use social constructivism and representation as main theories and combined with central concepts of the tourist gaze, stereotypes and the other, and post-colonialism and orientalism. Moreover, we conduct a case study by applying qualitative discourse analysis in order to find out the stereotypes and orientalist ideas of China depicted in the tourist material. The findings show that in the perspective of western tourist material, China is representative of the Orient. The analysis also concludes that China is seen as a country with 5,000-year civilization whose people have lots of virtues; a developing economic power; a not so democratic socialist country; a potential threat and a global actor with increasing influences. Our thesis contributes to the existing literature on China research and tourism research—marketing and political implications for its national image improvement and tourism development.
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Gorani, Dukagjin. "Orientalist ethnonationalism : from irredentism to independentism : discourse analysis of the Albanian ethnonationalist narrative about the National Rebirth (1870-1930) and Kosovo Independence (1980-2000)." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/24085/.
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The thesis focuses on the chronological identification and detection of the discursive analogies between the category of 'the nation‘ and those of 'the West‘, 'Europe‘, 'democracy‘ and 'independence‘ in the Kosovo Albanian ethnonationalist narrative. The study represents a multi-dimensional exercise analysing the ethnonationalist discourse from a wide array of sample text which was produced during two relevant historical periods: the period between 1870-1930 and the period between 1980-2000. The first interval covers the period which is known in the Albanian history as the 'National Rebirth‘. The second deals with the recent history of political resistance of Kosovo Albanians and their 'sudden‘ discursive shift, from the narrative of 'unification with the Motherland Albania‘ (the unificationist/irredentist discourse) to the narrative of 'the independent Kosovo‘ (the independentist discourse) The main theoretical pillars of the study focus on the theories about the nation (specifically, its ethnic variation) and its narrative, the nationalism—as well as the representational systems of orientalism and balkanism (Said, 1978; Todorova, 1997). The study demonstrates that the discourse about the nation and national identity among Albanians is produced primarily through the internalisation of the external, orientalist approach in defining and understanding the social reality of the Balkan societies. Such internalisation is analysed through the prism of local adoption of the sociocultural and sociopolitical hegemonizing discourse that constituted the Western orientalist 'knowledge‘ about the Balkans—and, specifically, Albanians. The study notes that such discursive strategy of internalisation of orientalist traits within the ethnonationalist narrative is not limited to the Albanian societies (in both Albania and Kosovo) but appears as common feature in most of the societies/nations of the former Yugoslavia. In time, the study highlights, such process of 'nesting orientalisms‘ (Bakic-Hayden, 1996) was coupled with the phenomenon of the regional, exclusionist and competing ethnonationalist narratives which was aimed at constituing a nation‘s 'westernness‘ and 'Europeanness‘ through denying it to the other.
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Linon-Chipon, Sophie. "Gallia orientalis : voyages aux Indes orientales, 1529-1722, poétique et imaginaire d'un genre littéraire en formation /." Paris : Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39024672h.
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Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Litt. française--Paris 4, 1993. Titre de soutenance : Le genre de la relation de voyage française sur la route maritime des épices : des origines à 1722.Bibliogr. p. 603-679. Index. L'ouvrage porte par erreur : ISSN 0756-7847.
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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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au, maria degabriele@police wa gov, and Maria Degabriele. "Postorientalism : orientalism since orientalism." Murdoch University, 1997. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080122.112339.
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This dissertation examines a range of popular contemporary texts in a post-Saidian context. It begins with an analysis of Orientalism, as that text influences almost any discussion of representations of Easmest relations. Now, almost twenty years after Orientalism was first published in 1978 it is still a crucial text, and it still needs to be understood and argued with. The other texts looked at in this dissertation include novels, drama, films, opera, a musical, and the print and electronic mass media. They are texts that either represent or comment on EastIWest relations. The main texts I examine fall roughly into two categories: ones that are clearly orientalist and ones that are postorientalist. Those that are orientalist repeat the same myths of Orient Said describes in Orientalism. Those that are postorientalist challenge those myths by repeating and elaborating them, reversing and displacing the orientalist gaze.
The methodological approach is an eclectic blend of cultural studies and literary criticism. Such an approach enables analysis of a variety of texts, fiom classical nineteenth century books and myths through to contemporary postmodern representations, that deal with identity politics.
My thesis is that contemporary postcolonial representations that deal with East and West and that use and displace the very terms such categories rest upon, can be called "postoriental".
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Degabriele, Maria. "Postorientalism: orientalism since orientalism." Thesis, Degabriele, Maria (1997) Postorientalism: orientalism since orientalism. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1997. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/20/.
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This dissertation examines a range of popular contemporary texts in a post-Saidian context. It begins with an analysis of Orientalism, as that text influences almost any discussion of representations of Easmest relations. Now, almost twenty years after Orientalism was first published in 1978 it is still a crucial text, and it still needs to be understood and argued with. The other texts looked at in this dissertation include novels, drama, films, opera, a musical, and the print and electronic mass media. They are texts that either represent or comment on EastIWest relations. The main texts I examine fall roughly into two categories: ones that are clearly orientalist and ones that are postorientalist. Those that are orientalist repeat the same myths of Orient Said describes in Orientalism. Those that are postorientalist challenge those myths by repeating and elaborating them, reversing and displacing the orientalist gaze.
The methodological approach is an eclectic blend of cultural studies and literary criticism. Such an approach enables analysis of a variety of texts, fiom classical nineteenth century books and myths through to contemporary postmodern representations, that deal with identity politics.
My thesis is that contemporary postcolonial representations that deal with East and West and that use and displace the very terms such categories rest upon, can be called postoriental.
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Degabriele, Maria. "Postorientalism: orientalism since orientalism." Degabriele, Maria (1997) Postorientalism: orientalism since orientalism. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1997. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/20/.
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This dissertation examines a range of popular contemporary texts in a post-Saidian context. It begins with an analysis of Orientalism, as that text influences almost any discussion of representations of Easmest relations. Now, almost twenty years after Orientalism was first published in 1978 it is still a crucial text, and it still needs to be understood and argued with. The other texts looked at in this dissertation include novels, drama, films, opera, a musical, and the print and electronic mass media. They are texts that either represent or comment on EastIWest relations. The main texts I examine fall roughly into two categories: ones that are clearly orientalist and ones that are postorientalist. Those that are orientalist repeat the same myths of Orient Said describes in Orientalism. Those that are postorientalist challenge those myths by repeating and elaborating them, reversing and displacing the orientalist gaze.
The methodological approach is an eclectic blend of cultural studies and literary criticism. Such an approach enables analysis of a variety of texts, fiom classical nineteenth century books and myths through to contemporary postmodern representations, that deal with identity politics.
My thesis is that contemporary postcolonial representations that deal with East and West and that use and displace the very terms such categories rest upon, can be called postoriental.
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Rodrigues, Gabriella Barbosa 1986. "Arqueologia bíblica = um estudo de narrativas e discursos acerca de sua constituição como disciplina." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279191.
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Orientador: Pedro Paulo Abreu FunariDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Este trabalho pretende apresentar a história das primeiras pesquisas arqueológicas na região da antiga Palestina, ao investigar o desenvolvimento da disciplina que ficou conhecida como Arqueologia Bíblica. Trata-se de uma discussão sobre as relações entre Arqueologia e política, à luz das diferentes leituras modernas sobre um mesmo passado. Com isso, pretende-se evidenciar como a prática arqueológica na Palestina, praticada inicialmente por europeus, depois também por norte-americanos e, mais tade, por pesquisadores nascidos na região, serviu, ao longo de sua história, para legitimar práticas imperialistas e colonizadoras e construir as relações entre ocidente e oriente, no início do século XIX, por exemplo, ou ainda para legitimar disputas atuais, como os conflitos entre árabes e israelenses
Abstract: This research intends to present the history of the first archaeological excavations in the region of the ancient Palestine following the development of the scientific discipline called Biblical Archaeology. It discuss the relationship between Archaeology and Politics, in the light of different modern views about the same past. Therefore we intend to emphasize how archaeological practice in Palestine - first conducted by europeans, then by americans, and much later by natives - was used, during its hstory, to legitimate, for example, imperialist and colonialist practices and to build the relationship between Western and Eastern in the early XIX century, or contemporary disputes, such as the conflicts between arabs and israelis
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An, Tsun-Wei. "El papel de los paratextos en la traducción de la narrativa china al castellano y la creación de la imagen del “Otro chino”." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670327.
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Aquest treball se centra a revelar la imatge de l'altre xinès que es pot trobar implícitament a les portades de la narrativa xinesa contemporània traduïdes al castellà i/o al català que es van publicar a Espanya entre 1949 i 2019. La traducció, des de l'antiguitat, ha tingut un paper clau en la comunicació entre països i cultures. En aquest procés, a part del text, els paratextos també s'encarreguen de transmetre la informació i els coneixements socials d'altres cultures. A més, ofereixen un espai encara més lliure perquè els agents mediadors despleguin la seva ideologia per produir una imatge que pugui acostar-se més a les expectatives dels lectors receptors, encara que estigui distorsionada. De les 197 portades recopilades en el nostre corpus, s'ha posat de manifest que els paratextos han servit de plataforma valuosa per establir la imatge de l'altre xinès a Espanya, ja que, basant-nos en l'anàlisi quantitativa i qualitativa, s'aprecia una discordança temporal entre els models xinesos que es presenten a les portades i els que corresponen al contingut de l'obra. De la mateixa manera, en aquest estudi també hem descobert un ús incoherent dels sinogrames que apareixen a les portades, que es converteixen en una marca cultural amb la finalitat de subratllar el caràcter exòtic de la cultura xinesa.Este trabajo se centra en revelar la imagen del Otro chino que se puede encontrar implícitamente en las portadas de la narrativa china contemporánea traducidas al castellano y/o al catalán que se publicaron en España desde 1949 hasta 2019. La traducción, desde la antigüedad, ha desempeñado un papel clave en la comunicación entre países y culturas. En este proceso, aparte del texto, los paratextos también se encargan de transmitir la información y los conocimientos sociales de otras culturas. Además, ofrecen un espacio aún más libre para que los agentes mediadores desplieguen su ideología para producir una imagen que pueda acercarse más a las expectativas de los lectores receptores, aunque esté distorsionada. De las 197 portadas recopiladas en nuestro corpus, se ha puesto de manifiesto que los paratextos han servido de plataforma valiosa para establecer la imagen del Otro chino en España, ya que, basándonos en el análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo, se aprecia una discordancia temporal entre los modelos chinos que se presentan en las portadas y los que corresponden al contenido de la obra. Del mismo modo, en este estudio también hemos descubierto un uso incoherente de los sinogramas que aparecen en las portadas, que se convierten en una marca cultural con el fin de subrayar el carácter exótico de la cultura china.
The objective of this research is to analyse the image of the Chinese Other shown in book covers of contemporary Chinese narrative translated into Spanish and/or Catalan published in Spain from 1949 to 2029. Translation has always played a key role in intercultural communication. In this process, apart from the text itself, paratexts also play an important role in the transmission of cultural and social information from one culture to another. Moreover, paratexts offer mediating agents a freer space to display their ideology to construct the image of the Other according to readers' expectations, which are often made up of stereotypes. Based on an analysis of 197 book covers, we found out that paratexts have been a powerful tool to build the image of the Chinese Other in Spain through translated literature. After a qualitative and quantitative analysis, we also realised that the Chinese Other shown in book covers does not correspond to that depicted in the corresponding stories from a chronological point of view. Moreover, we also notice an inconsistent use of sinograms appearing in book covers, since they are used a cultural mark in order to underline the exotic character of Chinese culture.
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Estaklhr, Yassaman. "Subversion du discours orientaliste dans le tome premier de l'Histoire de la Turquie d'Alphonse de Lamartine." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-127585.
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The first volume of Histoire de la Turquie published in 1854 by the French writer Alphonse de Lamartine, is entirely dedicated to the life of Prophet Muhammed. This book raises issues which deserve to be examined in the light of Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said, who criticized the persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture. That is the main purpose of this study. Based on the premise that the character of Muhammed is portrayed posi-tively by Lamartine, we hypothesized that Histoire de la Turquie is a coun-terexample to the thesis of Said. In other words, rather than participating in the discourse of orientalism (the dominant discourse of West), this book marks a break from it by subverting the traditional image of the prophet of Islam. In order to test the hypothesis, we have adopted a comparative ap-proach, allowing the comparison between Lamartine’s discourse and orien-talist discourse. The concept of "subversion" which this study is based on has been bor-rowed from Richard Terdiman’s definition in his book Discourse/Counter-Discourse (1985): it means challenging the dominant discourse or the estab-lished values. To a lesser extent, this study relies on François Dosse’s Le pari biographique (2005) who considers that "writing a biography" is never neutral. Biographers always find pretexts for rehabilitation or demystifica-tion. Also behind every biography hides a project that needs to be clarified. On the basis of the results of this study, it can be concluded that Histoire de la Turquie is not a simple chronology of Muhammed’s life, but a commit-ted text against the dominant Western view of Islam and its founder. It marks a clear break from orientalist discourse by subverting it systematical-ly. This subversive rupture is expressed in the text by the challenging of preconceived ideas, by acts of derision, negation and rejection, and, most frequently, by inversion of values. This appears to be an attempt by Lamar-tine to restore the predominantly negative portrayal of Muhammed. Histoire de la Turquie is thus a counterexample to Said’s theory, which denies the West’s ability to overcome the prejudices against Islam.Den första volymen av den franske författaren Alphonse de Lamartines Histoire de la Turquie som publicerades 1854 är helt ägnad åt profeten Mu-hammed liv. Denna bok ger upphov till frågor som förtjänar att granskas i ljuset av Orientalism (1978) av Edward Said, som kritiserade de ihållande eurocentriska fördomarna mot arabiska muslimer och deras kultur. Denna granskning är det huvudsakliga syftet med denna studie. Med utgångspunkt i att Muhammed porträtteras positivt av Lamartine är vår hypotes att Histoire de la Turquie utgör ett motexempel till Saids teori. I stället för att ligga i linje med orientalismens diskurs (den dominerande väs-terländska diskursen) intar hans bok ett helt annat förhållningssätt till den traditionella bilden av islams profet. För att testa hypotesen har vi valt en komparativ metod, vilket möjliggör jämförelsen mellan Lamartine diskurs och orientalistisk diskurs. Begreppet "subversion", som denna studie bygger på, har lånats av Ri-chard Terdiman. Hans definition i boken Discourse/Counter-discours (1985) innebär att det subversiva utmanar den dominerande diskursen eller de fast-slagna värderingarna. I mindre utsträckning baseras vår undersökning på Le pari biographique av François Dosse (2005), som anser att "att skriva en biografi" aldrig är någonting neutralt. Levnadstecknaren hittar alltid före-vändningar för rehabilitering eller avmystifiering. Således döljs bakom varje biografi ett projekt som måste klargöras. Resultatet av vår studie ger vid handen att Histoire de la Turquie inte är någon enkel kronologi över Muhammeds liv, utan en engagerad text som polemiserar mot den dominerande västerländska synen på islam och dess grundare. Lamartine bryter helt och hållet med orientalismens diskurs genom att systematiskt motsäga densamma. Denna subversiva ståndpunkt kommer till uttryck i texten antingen genom ett ifrågasättande av förutfattade me-ningar, eller genom ett förlöjligande, ett förnekande och ett tillbakavisande, men oftast genom en omkastning av värderingar. Detta förefaller vara ett försök av Lamartine att korrigera den övervägande negativa bilden av Mu-hammed. Histoire de la Turquie är alltså ett motexempel till Saids teori, som förnekar västvärldens förmåga att övervinna fördomarna mot islam.
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Delvallez, Legendre Sophie. "Les influences hispano-orientales dans l’oeuvre poétique, graphique et dramatique de Victor Hugo (1820-1860)." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN20011/document.
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Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons d’abord aux origines du cadre arabo-espagnol en montrant comment la société du XIXe siècle est tournée vers l’Orient et comment l’art est pénétré par ce nouveau monde, notamment grâce à l’orientalisme et au romantisme. Nous abordons l’iconographie orientale hugolienne par le biais de ses souvenirs personnels, des traces laissées par ses voyages, en tenant compte de sa biographie mais aussi de la peinture et de la littérature arabo-espagnoles pour étudier des figures et mouvements emblématiques de l’Orient hugolien. Ensuite nous approchons l’univers arabo-espagnol et ses motifs récurrents. Nous voyons comment la culture arabo-espagnole a influencé les écrits de Hugo. Enfin, nous plongeons dans l’âme espagnole de Hugo avec son caractère fantasmatique et ésotérique. Toutes les passions humaines sont enfermées dans ce monde arabo-espagnol et permettent à Hugo de se livrer tel qu’il est réellementIn this thesis, firstly we investigate the origins of the Moorish Spanish context by showing how XIXth century society is turned towards the Orient and how Art is permeated by this new world in particular due to the influences of orientalism and romanticism. We discuss Hugo’s oriental iconography through his personal memoirs, notes from his travel journals, taking into account his biography but also by studying figures and movements symbolic of Hugo’s orient as depicted in Moorish Spanish painting and literature. Secondly, we look into the Moorish Spanish world and its recurrent themes. We illustrate how Moorish Spanish culture influenced Hugo’s writings. Lastly, we delve into Hugo’s Spanish soul with all its phantasmagorical and esoteric elements. Every human passion can be found in this Moorish Spanish world which allows Hugo to reveal his true inner character
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Allard, Elisabeth Bolorinos. "My enemy or my brother? : Spanish representations of Muslim and Jewish culture during the colonial campaigns in Morocco, 1909-1927." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6e0bcfff-12a2-4b59-92d4-57f9fff5adec.
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This thesis examines Spanish representations of Muslim and Jewish cultures in Morocco during the colonial campaigns in the Rif (1909-1927) in relation to constructions of Spanish identity during this period. It focuses on visual and textual narratives in the press (colonial photojournalism) and on three literary texts: Carmen de Burgos' En la guerra (1909), Ernesto Giménez Caballero's Notas marruecas de un soldado (1923) and Arturo Barea's La ruta (1943). The analysis undertaken centres on the use of the motifs of the body and the city and references to the medieval Castilian ballad tradition, the Romancero, by writers and photographers to explore the cultural relationship between Spain and North Africa. The chapters explore the delineation of boundaries between Spanish and Moroccan cultures by contemporary commentators and the power structures that underpin those boundaries, considering the different hierarchies that are established in Spain's relationship with Moroccan Muslims and Jews. Chapter 1 concerns the socio-historical context of the colonial campaigns and highlights the significance of the question of Spain's identity in relation to Morocco during this period. Chapter 2 compares representations of cultural and ethnic affinity between Spain and Morocco, arguing that beyond merely serving as a tool of colonial domination, they are harnessed in some cases to support the colonial venture, in others to challenge it, and yet in others to explore the pre-modern origins of the Spanish nation. In many of the examples examined, a process of self-Orientalisation is observed, where the 'Orientalist' and colonialist gaze is turned back on Spain as well as on Morocco. Chapter 3 examines representations of Muslim and Jewish alterity, arguing that these assertions of difference reveal Spanish anxieties about non-difference from North Africa, cultural regression, national fragmentation, and Spain's ability to dominate the protectorate. I conclude that these anxieties provide the fundamental underpinning to Spanish constructions of Morocco during the Rif War, and that this self-awareness about non-difference and failures of domination unsettles the predominant paradigm of discourse analysis within colonial studies.
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Serafim, Fernando Ulisses Mendonça. "Camilo Pessanha no contexto da sinologia do seu tempo: idiossincrasias." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8150/tde-13012016-133230/.
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O presente trabalho se propõe a analisar algumas concepções sobre o Oriente, correntes na primeira metade do século XX, que interferiram diretamente na escrita de Camilo Pessanha (1867-1926) sobre a vida chinesa. Morador de Macau por cerca de 26 anos, escreveu alguns poucos textos em prosa que tematizam a cultura e os costumes da China, além de ter tido contato com sinólogos de destaque. Os pareceres de Pessanha sobre o Oriente, bem como o de outros atores importantes, são relevantes na medida em que revelam influências do orientalismo, do exotismo e da sinologia, de maneira a reproduzir ou desafiar certos aspectos da lógica do discurso colonial instaurado em Portugal e aplicado em Macau. Num primeiro momento, o trabalho pretende refletir sobre a atuação de Camilo Pessanha como estudioso da cultura chinesa, prática na qual é confrontado com o seu contemporâneo e colega de trabalho Silva Mendes (1867-1931), também professor no Liceu de Macau. O discurso autorizado europeu que parte da ideia de domìnio sobre povos ditos inferiores seduziu a intelectualidade ocidental, e teve forte repercussão em grande parte dos pareceres de Camilo Pessanha sobre a cultura chinesa. Mostraremos, além dessa vertente, o cotejo que alguns estudiosos da vida do poeta empreendem em relação a uma suposta aproximação com a estética do exotismo. Desenhado este panorama, propomos um esboço do que seria uma nova visão portuguesa sobre Macau, ao cotejarmos o seu passado colonial, explicitado na prática administrativa portuguesa por autores como Oliveira Martins, com as novas possibilidades de compreensão da idiossincrasia macaense, esboçadas a partir de algumas iniciativas de autores como Camilo Pessanha e Silva Mendes.This study aims at analyzing some conceptions regarding the East, present in the first half of the 20th century, which interfered directly on Camilo Pessanhas (1867-1926) writing about Chinese life. As a resident of Macao for twenty-six years, he wrote a few prose texts about Chinese life and culture, besides being in touch with some very important sinologists such as Silva Mendes (1867-1931) and José Vicente Jorge. Pessanhas remarks on the East, as well as those of other writers, are relevant for they portrait influences from Orientalism, exoticism and sinology in order to reproduce or challenge certain aspects related to the logic of the colonial discourse established in Portugal and applied in Macao. At first, this paper intends to reflect upon Camilo Pessanhas action as a student of Chinese culture, in which he is confronted by his fellow and co-worker Silva Mendes (who was also a teacher at Macaos Lyceum) as well as his pupil Luís Gonzaga Gomes (1907-1976). The European authorized discourse which derives from the idea of dominance of the so-called inferior peoples seduced the Western intellectuality and had a major impact on many of Pessanhas assessments on Chinese culture. Besides this dimension, we will also analyze a possible connection with exoticism, believed to be true by some researchers who studied the poets life. Having set the scene, we propose an outline of what would be a new Portuguese view on Macao, when comparing its colonial past, clarified in the Portuguese administrative practice by authors such as Oliveira Martins, with new possibilities for understanding Macaos idiosyncrasy, derived from some initiatives of writers like Camilo Pessanha and Silva Mendes.
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Contrera, Ximena Isabel Leon. "Um filme falado: a História e o Mediterrâneo na obra de Manoel de Oliveira." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-06122012-123348/.
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A partir da análise de Um Filme Falado (2003), de Manoel de Oliveira, são discutidas questões relacionadas à historiografia, à narrativa histórica por meio do cinema, bem como à crítica do orientalismo, eurocentrismo, relacionado-as à historiografia lusa e à do Mediterrâneo. São levados em conta aspectos de outras obras do realizador português, em especial Non, ou a vã glória de mandar (1990). Para a interpretação da película são consideradas obras da historiografia e de análise fílmica, bem como da crítica ao orientalismo, promovendo um diálogo com a historiografia em especial aquela que aborda o Mediterrâneo, Portugal, observando aspectos da história ibérica moderna, as relações do Ocidente com o Oriente árabe islâmico, além de levar em conta aspectos historiográficos como os lugares de memória.Beginning with the film analysis of A Talking Picture (2003), by Manoel de Oliveira, here are discussed several questions regarding historiography, historical narrative through cinema, as well as the critics of Orientalism, Eurocentrism, connecting them with Portuguese and Mediterranean historiographies. I take in consideration aspects of other works by the Portuguese director, especially No or the vain glory of command (1990). To proceed about the film interpretation are considered works from historiography and film analysis, as well as from the critic of Orientalism, promoting a dialogue with historiography especially the one that approaches the Mediterranean Sea, Portugal, observing aspects from Iberian history, the relations of West and Islamic East, and also considering historiographical aspects as places of memory.
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Morais, Veridiana Delia Bueno de. "O Iraque na TV Brasileira." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8154/tde-10102011-103949/.
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O presente trabalho discorre sobre as imagens e ideias que as emissoras difundiram sobre o Iraque durante a cobertura das invasões do país, especialmente em 2003. Além de um estudo sobre as ramificações do processo de comunicação, como estão distribuídos os conglomerados que detêm os canais de informação, o material usado no Brasil e como as emissoras aberta, pública e por cabo abordaram o tema.This research discuss about the images and ideas diffused by news networks about Iraq during covering invasions in the country, especially in 2003. Besides a study about the ramifications of the communication process, how are distributed the conglomerates that owns the information channels, the material used in Brazil and how networks open, public and cable broached the subject.
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譚美兒 and Mei-yee Eve Tam. "Orientalism and photography." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4413938X.
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Wallen, John. "Burton and Orientalism." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538763.
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My thesis aims to analyse the ways in which the Victorian intellectual and traveller, Richard Francis Burton, has been viewed by contemporaries and more modern critics. In 3 particular, I point out that while most views of Burton in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were positive, in recent times his achievements have been rather neglected in certain academic circles (though there has been no shortage of interest in his life with the publication of a steady stream of biographies). As I show in the thesis, this is largely due to the negative views of Burton expressed in Edward Said's influential book, Orientalism. With the subsequent development of Said's treatise into the branch of modern criticism known as post-colonial theory, Said's views on Burton have become ossified within the discourse. In post-colonialism, Burton is often used as an archetype of everything that was wrong about Victorian imperialism and paternalism. For example, Mary Louise Pratt portrays Burton as a prime example of an English traveller whose "imperial eyes" survey and control everything they light upon (in the case referred to, Lake Tanganyika). On the other hand, biographers and historical writers such as Dane Kennedy have had many positive things to say about Burton, and one of my major concerns in this thesis is to bring together the differing viewpoints of the biographers and post-colonial critics (who up to the present time have largely ignored each other) in a mutually beneficial process of crossfertilisation that will reveal a more complicated-and also more accurate-Richard Burton for detailed future consideration and discussion. In the thesis I assert that we should view Burton as a man of his time who contributed much that was previously unknown to the fledgling Victorian sciences of anthropology and ethnography. In particular, I emphasise Burton's contribution to the development of a relativistic view of religion and cultural traditions that challenged the monolithic view of the Victorians concerning the absolute superiority of their own religion-Christianity-over the native peoples they ruled. In essence, my thesis is an attempt to put Burton back where he belongs as a significant contributor to the developing world-view that gained such huge momentum in the late nineteenthcentury and subsequently led to what is, usually, roughly termed as "the scientific method". Furthermore, it is my belief that this aim can best be realised by dissociating Burton from Said's discourse on "Orientalism" and placing him in other, more positive contexts connected with Victorianism such as Victorian travel writing, Victorian intellectuals with a sympathy for Islam, and the development of Victorian science.
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Tam, Mei-yee Eve. "Orientalism and photography." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262099.
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