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dward Said was a scholar and critical writer of postcolonial studies with an increasingly legendary status.... hile visiting his family in Beirut in '71, he got entrenched in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine as a part of a community of academics and writers who were involved in various colonial and postcolonial struggles.... n 1975-1976 Said became a fellow at Stanford University and wrote orientalism (1978), the book that made him famous....
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In order to realize orientalism as a tool of colonial discourse in the twentieth century literary criticism it is essential to comprehend the concept of orientalism as proposed by Edward Said.... In short, the relevance of orientalism in the twentieth century literary criticism as a tool of colonial discourse cannot be questioned and Edward Said is the chief proponent of this method of analysing the true image of the 'Orient' in the Western literary theory.... The concept of orientalism was in air much before him and it was a term more widely used in the 19th century art history....
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Roger Spegele, author of "Fiction and Political theory" argued that there is no difference between political novels and political theory (114-127).... In keeping with Said's notion that literary production provides the raw material of politics, this study will use novels written by Arabs and Moslems to examine orientalism, colonialism, the search for home and the quest for identity.... More specifically, eight Arab and Moslem novels and three Occidental ones will be used to examine Edward Said's thesis on orientalism and the validity of his statement about literature and politics....
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This paper presents a comprehensive examination of orientalism, including its' complex and multifaceted creature capable of evolving into other forms such as self-Orientalism, especially in media texts (Freire, 2000:145).... ?? These debates include the way in which these two categories are constructed, their interactions and the cultural… In his groundbreaking book orientalism, Edward Said initiated the discussion for these concerns by highlighting the manner in which discourses from he West concerning the East (or the Global South which is another term referring to all other countries apart from the elite west) created a form of cultural hegemony and domination....
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This essay "Debussy and orientalism" outlines the life of the Debussy and his impact on the music of the 20th century.... This essay describes the creative career and impact of Achille-Claude Debussy.... Achille-Claude Debussy was one of the most accomplished French composers of the 19th and 20th century....
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urther, I agree with the author that settler colonialism theory depends on the fast distinction between non-Native/settler and Native/indigenous.... I appreciate that kama‘āina in Hawai'ian is The postcolonial and Eco-Criticism By Presented to Yamashiro (2009) argues that the tantalizing and sweet songs played significant roles in enabling and reassuring texts across larger settler colonialism projects....
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"Edward Said: Orientalism's Effect on Art and History" paper focuses on Edward Said, a scholar and critical writer of postcolonial studies with increasingly legendary status.... hile visiting his family in Beirut in '71, he got entrenched in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine as a part of a community of academics and writers who were involved in various colonial and postcolonial struggles.... n 1975-1976 Said became a fellow at Stanford University and wrote orientalism (1978), the book that made him famous....
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This paper presents Orientalism which created such as the postcolonial theory.... he central argument of orientalism is to prove why we acquire this knowledge is not based on any centre of objective but the end result that reflect certain end result.... orientalism has varied sections, for instance, American orientalism, orientalism today, repertory orientalism, orientalism and the empire, orientalism in action, orientalism and the Palestinian question and the Oklahoma bombing....
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