In "States" the author‚ Edward Said‚ discloses the story of his people‚ the Palestinians‚ in an epic to express to the world the disconcerting challenges endured by the struggling Palestinian culture. The underlying claim is that of which is fair for any people to aspire‚ the dream to be master in your own house. Thus translated into the ideals of nationalism: blood and belonging. Said uses a combination of both photographs and writing style to tell a story that is deeper than the plain text.
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between the European and Asiatic parts of the world. My contention is that Orientalism is fundamentally a political doctrine willed over the Orient because the Orient was weaker than the West‚ which elided the Orient’s difference with its weakness. (Said‚ Orientalism
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Taylor Stephan Section 2 Exam “States” 1. Edward Said emphasizes the scattered‚ alienated nature of the Palestinian people. In my opinion‚ Said clearly displays that it is unfair to ask “What is it you Palestinians want?”. Palestine‚ once recognized as a country and a community‚ is now shattered into a plethora of pieces. These pieces‚ or people each with memories and experiences‚ were sprinkled all across the world. It would seem impossible to share national pride when one’s country does
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major global cultures rolling up their sleeves to duke it out in a final battle of human identity‚ ignoring the real possibility of malleable and intertwining cultures that might actually emerge in the end‚ as Edward Said suggests. Author of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism‚ Said studies Western imperialist culture and its passive legitimation through classic literature and a hawkish media. He concerns himself‚ also‚ with the power structures that accompany an imperialist culture. Both scholars
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the essay‚ Said talks about when the Palestinians doesn’t have a state but instead they live in other countries‚where the people has referred the Palestinians as a “legend”. After the Palestinians
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States Edward: Said “States‚” by Edward Said is an essay written by a Palestinian man with first-hand accounts of daily life in that region of the Middle-East. Said was renowned in the literary community as one of the most “distinguished literary critics and scholars...” Born in Jerusalem in 1935‚ Said‚ at the age of twelve‚ fled with his family to Cairo during the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state. In his essay‚ Said begins to discuss the state of the Palestinian people. The content
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childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. With an old lama he travels throughout India. The writer creates a vision of harmony of India that unites the secular life and the spiritual life though there is identity crisis on him. Critic Abdul Jan Mohamed in his essay says‚" Imperialist is not fixated on specific images or stereotypes of the other but rather on the effective benefits proffered by the Manichean allegory which generates the various stereotypes."(68) In the same way‚ he also opines on the attitude
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perspective of high European modernism Said explains that “he appears to me‚ and I am sure many others in the Third World‚ to belong naturally to the other cultural domain” (slide 8) Then‚ we can’t talk about something without materialistic proves like an example from Yeats’ poems (slide 9) this poem is (The Fisherman) In this poem‚ Yeats presents the ideal Irish man .He wants to remind the Irish people of their cultures and figures . Some critics said that he wants to illustrate a model to the
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How does Post-colonialism help in the interpretation and evaluation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre? Approaching Charlotte Bronte’s novel‚ Jane Eyre from a post-colonial reading‚ this essay seeks to address the theory of Universalism‚ observing how it is presented from a Eurocentric perspective in relation to Jane and her English prejudices. It will focus on the concept of ‘Other’ through the representation of Bertha Mason. Further to this it will also argue that ‘Otherness’ can also be reflected
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a madwoman and a voiceless monster that deserves a ten-year- rigorous confinement in the Attic. I will attempt to focus on the cultural and historical context of ‘Jane Eyre’ and its impact on the representation of the’ Other’. I will also draw on Edward Said’s theorization related to race‚ representation‚ and resistance in my analysis. I am going to examine and explore the meaning of representation and its enormous power of construction of social reality especially if it is allied
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