[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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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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Proposed Title of the Thesis Struggle over Identity: Colonialist Ideology in Kipling’s Kim. Statement of the Problem Is Kim white or is he a native? While Kim insists that he is an Indian‚ the narrator adamantly asserts Kim’s British origins. This struggle between Kim and the narrator continues throughout the novel. The struggle over the inheritance is resolved through a bifurcation of the paternal function: on the one hand‚ Kim’s personal and emotional allegiance to the Indians and‚ on the
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an Students‚ Teachers‚ and Edward Said: Taking Stock of Orientalism Since the publication of Orientalism in 1978‚ Edward Said’s critique has become the hegemonic discourse of Middle Eastern studies in the academy. While Middle Eastern studies can improve‚ and some part of Said’s criticism is valid‚ it is apparent that the Orientalism critique has done more harm than good. Although Said accuses the West and Western researchers of "essentializing" Islam‚ he himself commits a similar sin when he writes
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Cited: Brooke‚ Tucker and Mason‚ Lawrence‚ ed. The Tragedy of Othello. USA: Yale University Press‚ 1947. Edward‚ Said. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books‚ 1979. Leonard‚ F. Dean‚ ed. A Casebook on Othello. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company‚ 1961. Elmer‚ Edgar Stoll. Art and Artifice in Shakespeare. London: Cambridge University Press‚ 1938. [pic]
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Edward Said identifies Orientalism as that what we know about other cultures is like a story or myths. There is a division the East and the West and in this the West is a more superior culture than the East. This superiority also helped the West politically wise. This also leads to how when the West attempts to study the East’s culture they don’t really take the truth into account and they continue to see themselves to be more superior and different. In the movie The Last Emperor there are evidences
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of postmodern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. Many practitioners take Edward Said’s book Orientalism (1978) to be the theory’s founding work; although French theorist Aimé Césaire made similar claims decades before Said.” Wikipedia states that Edward Said analyzed the works of postcolonial fictional writers exploring how they were both influenced by and helped to shape a societal fantasy of European racial superiority
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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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therefore created a particular point of view from where Europeans understood Africa and the relation they had with it. This mode of relating to their colonies and the cultural depictions made by Europeans were later given the term Orientalism by Edward Said. This clash of civilizations and the interplay between colonialist and natives from the colonial viewpoint‚ or in other words‚ their Orientalist prism‚ is one of the themes that Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness develops. Conrad displays the
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fully understood emphasis will be placed on the historical development‚ the purposes‚ assumptions and practices. a In the analysis of post-colonial criticism it is rather critical to know what other writers have said about this type of criticism‚ several writers such as Frantz Fanon Edward Said and Karl Marks has written on the topic of Post-Colonial Criticism. b It can be understood by researching the author’s life and relating the information cautiously to the work‚ using the author’s time‚ political
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