Orientalism Essay

“What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.” – Mahatma Gandhi “I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa.” – Ian Smith Over the centuries Colonialism and Imperialism have been viewed, justified and experienced differently throughout the world. The very idea created questions of both legitimacy as well as indignity in the minds of historians, writers, scholars and critics of the world. However, the growing incongruence and

Communication through language performs a pivotal role in a human life as it sustains it and therefore essential. Of course, various means of communication like gestures and others can never replace the use of a language in a human life. A human being is a God’s creation, but a language is a human creation. The same information in one language can be communicated differently through different languages depending on culture, region, religion, politics and above all the society of the speaker of a

Obstructions to Autonomy for Self-Discovery From Jyoti to Jasmine to Kali to Jazzy to Jase to Jane, this dynamic character, an illegal Indian immigrant woman comes to America and is said to assert her autonomy in a foreign world. Tai claims “[Jasmine] achieves a sense of self-identity and self-value in the world as she searches for freedom and love in America” (Tai 71). With each name, she “avoid[s] becoming a fixed subject or identity” (Tai 66). Jasmine is reborn, however not in accordance with

Angel Island is called “the Ellis Island of the West”. Angel Island was supposed to be a beacon of hope for many immigrants; who were wished to start a new life in the United States. These immigrants wished to achieve their own “American Dream”. Angel island did not live up to its name expectation of being a welcoming utopian paradise for immigrants. Angel Island had a plethora of people from many nationalities go through its doors. Yet, the immigration station becomes a “home” from many immigrants

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933) When the terrorist threat and fear politics are analyzed, there are many approaches that different school of thoughts has taken. Some of them are unbalanced and primarily critical towards what is normative in their respective societies, rather than offering a comprehensive reading of the myriad interconnected issues that relates to the nature of terrorism and political securitization

Branden-Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon and David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly are both sophisticated works centered around sociocultural problems in their respective settings. In An Octoroon, Branden-Jacobs Jenkins presents his own adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon critiquing Boucicault’s depiction of race and identity on the plantation Terrebonne in Louisiana. The play is centered around the sale of the plantation and a girl who is one eighth black by descent, an octoroon girl named Zoe who

Part 1: Paul Poiret was born on April 20th, 1879 in Paris, France. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion has earned him the title in many people’s eyes as the “King of Fashion”, because he established the principle of modern dress and created the blueprint of the modern fashion industry. Poiret’s designs and ideas led the direction of modern design history. He was born into a working class family and his natural charisma eventually gained him entry into some of the most exclusive ateliers

They do not describe him as a victim, they describe him as compulsive, power-wielding, and superior (paragraph 16). Further in support of Orwell’s non-victim status are Moosavinia, Niazi, and Ghaforian. In their postcolonial work applying Said’s Orientalism to Orwell’s works, they mention that Orwell “wrote Burmese Days,

stamping the court with all kinds of turquerie, enmeshing itself more freely with the lachinage of the former century (remembering also that chinoiserie was very much alive and a central element to the germination of the rococo),” (Fashion and Orientalism, page 63). Another factor that played into the Rococo was the fact that women had a bit more authority in the sense that they were allowed to hold positions of power. This is why Madame de Pompadour was incredibly well known as she

According to the novel Farewell to Manzanar, “I smiled and sat down, suddenly aware of what being of Japanese ancestry was going to be like. I wouldn’t be faced with physical attack, or with overt shows of hatred. Rather, I would be seen as someone foreign, or as someone other than American, or perhaps not be seen at all” (158). After the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the government saw all Japanese-Americans as enemies even though most, if not all of them, had done nothing wrong. They were taken from