William Usdin ENGL 157 – Exam #1 8.15.12 Orientalism in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North “Prospero‚ you are the master of illusion. Lying is your trademark. And you have lied so much to me (lied about the world‚ lied about me) that you have ended by imposing on me an image of myself. Underdeveloped‚ you brand me‚ inferior‚ that is the way you have forced me to see myself‚ I detest the image! What’s more‚ it’s a lie! But now I know you‚ you old cancer‚ and I know myself as well.” Caliban
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Date: 29/06/2009 . Bernoulli’s Law Name: Hibah Ismail . Section: 1 . Partner’s Name: Mohammad Kanso . A) Drag Coefficient What happens when you give the ball a gentle sideways push? Why? When we give the ball a gentle sideways push‚ it returns to its initial position above the fan. The air particles around the fan have a velocity equal to zero since they are still air. Therefore‚ the velocity of the
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Summarise Edward Said’s argument in his essay ‘Jane Austen and Empire’ and then show whether you support or refute it. Edward Said’s analysis of Jane Austen’s narrative in her 3rd novel ‘Mansfield Park’ (1814) is based on his own studies of ‘orientalism’. This term is defined by Said as a variety of false assumptions /depictions of Eastern people within Western attitudes. This is achieved‚ he argues‚ through the literary discourse provided by post-enlightenment‚ post-colonial American/European
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Arab Open University Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) FACULTY OF LANGUAGE STUDIES A210B TMA COVER FORM (2013) Branch: | Program: | Course Title: | Course Code: | Student Name: | Student ID: | Section Number:: | Tutor Name: | Mark Allocated to TMA | STUDENT MARK | 20% | for content : a max of 20 marks | marks deducted for lang. & communication errors: a maximum of 4 marks | Earned Mark | | | | | Notes on plagiarism: A. According to the Arab
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Orientalism in the Arab World creates imaginative geography‚ where people place themselves imaginatively within a known territory‚ and geographic common sense of belonging and exclude the other. Orientalism is a form of imaginative geography that is focused on the Arab World. Al-Mahfedi states "the Orientalist mis-representation and misconception of the
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audience’s expectation of China. The movie is full of stereotypes of China and Chinese‚ reflecting the orientalism’s attitudes from the West‚ especially from America (both written and directed by Americans) in this case. Orientalism‚ as studied in Edward Said’s book Orientalism (1978)‚ is an academic term used to “describe a pervasive Western tradition‚ both academic and artistic‚ of prejudiced outsider interpretations of the East‚ shaped by the attitudes of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th
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Said is best recognized for his prominent book “Orientalism” 1979‚ which holds that it is impossible for Westerns to write appropriate accounts of Middle Eastern affairs for the reason that beliefs are infected by cultural biases and superiority. In The Weekly Standard‚ Stanley Kurtz (2001) explains: (Kurtz‚ 2012) “The founding text of postcolonial studies‚ Orientalism effectively de-legitimated all previous scholarship on the Middle East by branding it as
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Mark Twain and the Orientalist Effect An important character in American history is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He is recognized more commonly by his pen name Mark Twain. Twain was an influential writer in the eighteen and early nineteen hundreds. He is known for his novels‚ letters‚ plays‚ short stories‚ and drawings‚ but mostly for being an exemplary writer. Culturally and historical important books‚ written by Twain‚ include Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Twain also wrote
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Media Scenario Professor – Ms. Bindu Menon Name – Drushti B. Joshi Roll number – 828 ABSTRACT: This is essay is based on countering the assumption that Orientalism as of today is an inert fact of nature and that it is in fact constructed. What are today the common tropes of Orientalism was in fact just an idea at a point in time with no historical reality. In order to translate an idea into reality‚ it must have a history (shared or not)‚ a tradition of thought‚ a vocabulary
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In the play M. Butterfly‚ David Henry Hwang portrays examples of how the practice of Orientalism and race and gender stereotypes in western culture functioned in the relationship between Gallimard and Song and he subverts these stereotypes towards the end of the play. It is apparent that Hwang is showing us how Song played up to the exploited image of Oriental women as demure and submissive and used Gallimard’s exotic and imperialistic view of the East to trick Gallimard for Song’s own needs.
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