Orientalism is a book written by Edward Said‚ the ‘father’ of post-colonialism. He is also called as ‘A man of controversy’‚ where his writings influenced many theories‚ activists‚ and also changed most of post-colonial studies of the Middle East in the United State and Europe drastically‚ especially in literary studies‚ history‚ sociology‚ anthropology‚ and comparative religion studies. His writings have been translated into 26 languages‚ receives lots of review including critics and enthusiasts
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understand our point of view. “States” by Edward Said is a transcultural text. A contact zone is the space in which transculturation takes place. Mary Pratt defines “Transculturation is a process whereby members of subordinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted by a dominant metropolitan culture” (323). Palestinians are surrounded by dominant cultures. Pratt uses “transcultural” to describe the dominant groups or cultures because there are so many
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the world‚ there is no place to be but home. Home is a place where we feel safe and take refuge. But how we will feel if this is taken from us? The essay by Edward Said‚ “States‚” narrates the story of about his country‚ Palestine‚ and the struggle of his countrymen. He also shares the passion of his homeland which we can relate to. “States” exemplify the experiences and perceptions of how important a home is to a common Palestinian. Our country is a big part of who we are. As we are born‚ we are
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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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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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Introduction to Culture and Imperialism Edward Said Culture is one of the things that elude an accurate definition. Some of the various well-known definitions are cited by Said in his various works. For instance: “Culture is the learned‚ accumulated experience of the communities‚ and it consists of socially transmitted patterns of behavior.” The final analysis of definition boils down to “socially transmitted patterns of behavior”‚ and makes more sense‚ though like other definitions
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[pic]Postcolonialism Postcolonialism (also Post-colonial theory‚ Postcolonial studies‚ and Post-colonialism) comprises methods of intellectual discourse that present analyses of‚ and responses to‚ the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism‚ which draw from different post-modern schools of thought‚ such as critical theory. In the field of anthropology‚ post-colonial studies record the human relations among the colonial nations and the peoples of the colonies they had ruled and exploited
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case of China‚ minority populations. In other words‚ Orientalism as an epistemology of power held by dominant authorities that shaped people’s identities and their thoughts. To begin the review of the critique of Orientalism‚ I will start with Edward Said. His book Orientalism (1978) is a seminal text that opens up a critique of colonial imperial discourses that produced and reproduced a set of bifurcated East-West relations in the field of culture‚ art‚ economy‚ as well as civilization. In short
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people were living in other countries‚ the Palestinians have experienced the racial views from the people in different countries. In 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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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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