CONSTRUCTING “NON-IDENTITY” AND “GLOCALIZATION” IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S SHALIMAR THE CLOWN ABDELAZIZ EL AMRANI* Abstract. The present paper attempts to address the issue of “nonidentity” and “glocalization” in the post-9/11 context in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown. In other words‚ we are going to investigate the representation of and the relationship between the distant and the close‚ the local and the global‚ and the foreign and the exotic in the post-9/11 world‚ through
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Cole Younger N0086726 What do you understand by the idea that globalization produces a ‘shrinking world’? A Disney World Globalization and the Walt Disney Company This essay will explore the concept of the shrinking world as a product of globalization‚ and investigate the Walt Disney Company’s contribution towards this phenomenon. It will begin by examining the primary motivating factors behind globalization‚ the spread of transportation and communication links‚ before presenting an overview
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Brain Food or Plain Food Being a college student may not be what it is all cracked up to be in the cinema. Juggling things such as working multiple part time jobs‚ meeting classwork deadlines‚ and various other responsibilities creates psychological and sometimes physical stress‚ ultimately tending to get in the way of one’s nutritional needs. When one does come to see that they have been neglecting their body of nutritional needs‚ they are faced with an ultimatum. The choice to be made is whether
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Become Fashionista is the main key word of La Sape. La Sape is a social movement occurs in Congo who devote their income to purchasing fine clothing and accessories‚ assuring they innovate the morale of their neighborhoods by being an example of couture and courtesy to others. Congo is well known as poverty country and interminable with civil conflicts. This is not the way cease La Sape “dream” to express their lavish apparel. The story of La Sape began when French colonization entered to Congo
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extent dissolved all kinds boundaries and br ought the world a lot closer. Amitav Ghosh`s prime thematic concern likewise is using the travel motif to create a neutral space where barriers dissolve and borders are blurred. It is precisely this cosmopolitanism which makes today`s Indian novelist stand at par with and not separate from global writers of English. More over the constant concern with the subaltern who`s lost in the annals of history‚ endears him to the readers. The immense amount
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Weltliteratur 1. “National Literature is now a rather unmeaning term; the epoch of World literature is at hand and everybody must strive to hasten its approach.” * Goethe‚ 1827 2. However‚ there were a few concerns that the term World literature‚ as coined by Goethe‚ failed to address: * When one says World literature‚ whose world? What sorts of literature is worth being labelled as World literature? * Although Goethe claimed that the local/national Literatures were going
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INTGLOS REVIEWER (Chapter 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 5‚ 9‚ 10) CHAPTER 1 Global Politics- politics that id conducted at a global rather than national. >Globalization- interconnectedness that means that our lives are increasingly shaped by events and etc. >State- sovereignty within territorial borders. >Sovereignty- unquestionable authority. >Authority- right to influence behavior. >Behaviouralism- social theories are constructed based on observable behavior. >State-centrism- state as key actor. >State-system-
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Motives Behind the Creation of the American Constitution Howard Zinn vs. Gordon Wood HIST 110 24 March 2014 The debate between Professor’s Wood and Zinn confronts two notions concerning the intent of the Constitution of the United States. This alternative view‚ depicting the Constitution in anything more than a light of admiration‚ was first introduce by Charles A. Beard in 1913. It stirred such controversy that the resonance of his different perspective still ripples through
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nationals of a given country * If intense‚ it may take the form of ethnocentrism or xenophobia * It is constructive * With tolerance‚ it enables the people to be aware of the existence of values INTERNATIONALISM * Also known as “COSMOPOLITANISM” * Relatively great disregard of local‚ provincial or national and racial or ethnic prejudices‚ attachments or peculiarities * Enables a person to abide by the doctrine of cultural relativism FILIPINO VALUE SYSTEM * Filipino Value
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Chinese Culture - The Culture of Shanghai Shanghai University 30.11.2012 Shanghai – Brief Overview Shanghai is an important commercial harbor and the most important industrial town of the People ’s Republic of China. The administrative area has more than 23 million inhabitants. The status of the town corresponds to that of a province; the town is subordinated directly of the central government. Shanghai is an important traffic interchange and an important cultural center and educational
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