Dissertations / Theses: 'Said, Edward W. Orientalism'

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Nechamkin, Judith. "Edward Said's Orientalism : discourse of power." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26122.

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This thesis is a study of Edward Said's Orientalism. Its purpose is to explain Orientalism as a unique contribution to the debate on the merits and faults of Orientalism. It is written in order to explain the relevance of Orientalism to the discipline of Islamic studies. The point of this thesis is not to criticize or exonerate Orientalism, but to understand its full implications. Orientalism is not the first work to address the topic of Orientalism, but it is unique in its approach and hypotheses. I have therefore focused only on those points which are unique, such as Said's use of Michel Foucault's theories and Joseph Conrad's imagery.

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Tansley, Tangea. "Writing from the shadowlands : how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said /." Tansley, Tangea (2004) Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/335/.

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This thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'. It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations. In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence. While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic.

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Wankerl, Thomas B. "On the imperial storyteller /." View abstract, 2002. http://wilson.ccsu.edu/theses/etd-2002-19/ThesisTitlePage.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2002.
Thesis advisor: Stuart Barnett. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-182). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Camargo, Adrover J. Jesús. "El conflicto palestino-israelí a partir del pensamiento de Edward W. Said." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/373640.

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La present tesi doctoral comprèn una anàlisi del conflicte palestí-israelià a partir de l'obra i el pensament d'Edward W. Said. És un treball des de la reflexió d'un autor a l'exili. En primer lloc, es conforma el marc teòric a partir de l'anàlisi de les obres de Said sobre orientalisme, cultura, imperialisme i resistència. En segon lloc, s'estudia el sionisme des de Said, és a dir, des del punt de vista de les seves víctimes i com a arrel del conflicte palestí-israelià. En tercer lloc, s'analitza el conflicte palestí-israelià a partir de l'obra filosòfica i política de Said des de la Naqbah de 1948, passant per la Naqsah de 1967, les Intifadas palestines contra l'ocupació sionista, els Acords d'Oslo, i les últimes reflexions contra l'atac a l'Iraq de 2003. En darrer lloc, es porta a terme un excurs dels últims deu anys del conflicte després de la mort del nostre autor a partir dels instruments saidians adquirits al llarg de la investigació. També s'analitza, en forma d'epíleg, la Primavera àrab a partir del pensament crític, híbrid i en contrapunt que va vertebrar tota l'obra de Said. Al mateix temps, en forma d’annexos, s’analitzen la paradoxa de les identitats jueva i àrab, i la lluita pels recursos naturals en el conflicte per Palestina
La presente tesis doctoral comprende un análisis del conflicto palestino-israelí a partir de la obra y el pensamiento de Edward W. Said. Es un trabajo desde la reflexión de un autor en el exilio. En primer lugar, se conforma el marco teórico a partir del análisis de las obras de Said sobre orientalismo, cultura, imperialismo y resistencia. En segundo lugar, se estudia el sionismo desde Said, es decir, desde el punto de vista de sus víctimas y como raíz del conflicto palestino-israelí. En tercer lugar, se analiza el conflicto palestino-israelí a partir de la obra filosófico-política de Said desde la Naqbah de 1948, pasando por la Naqsah de 1967, las Intifadas palestinas contra la ocupación sionista, los Acuerdos de Oslo, y las últimas reflexiones contra el ataque a Iraq de 2003. En último lugar, se lleva a cabo un excurso de los últimos diez años del conflicto tras la muerte de nuestro autor a partir de los instrumentos saidianos adquiridos a lo largo de la investigación. También se realiza una reflexión, en forma de epílogo, sobre la Primavera árabe a partir del pensamiento crítico, híbrido y en contrapunto que vertebró toda la obra de Said. A su vez, a modo de anexos, se analiza la paradoja de las identidades judía y árabe, y la lucha por los recursos naturales en el conflicto por Palestina.
This dissertation consists of an analysis of the Palestinian-Israelian conflict taking as a point of departure the ideas of Edward W. Said, the reflective work of an author in exile. The theoretical framework takes into account Said’s works on orientalism, culture, imperialism and resistance. Together with this, the concept of Zionism is studied through Said, that is, from the point of view of its victims as well as the root of the Palestinian-Israelian conflict. Third, this friction is analyzed taking as a starting point Said’s philosophical and political works from the 1948 Naqbah, through the 1967 Naqsah, and also the Palestinian intifadas against Zionist occupation, the Oslo Agreements, and Said’s last reflections on the Iraq War in 2003. Last, a survey of the last ten years of the conflict after Said’s death is carried out using Saidian elements that have come up along the research. The afterword attempts to work out as a reflection on the Arab Spring taken from Said’s critical, hybrid view and counterpoint, which assembled most of his writings. An annex is later included, in which both Jewish and Arab identities are analyzed, as well as the state of the natural resources at the time of the conflict.

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Schön, Jasmine. "Hermione Granger som “den Andra” : En analys av Hermione som mugglarfödd kvinna." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76153.

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Hermione Granger is the most prominent female character in the Harry Potter series. She is also the only one in the trio of herself, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley who is muggle-born. She is, therefore, most likely to be discriminated against in two aspects – on the basis of her sex and race. This essay examines Hermione with the help of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Edward W. Said’s Orientalism to show how she is represented and portrayed as “the Other” in these two aspects. In which aspect is she more likely to suffer from discrimination, or is it the combination of the two that is essential? As discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, and other aspects continues to grow in Western societies, it is important to look at how this widely popular literary series handles these issues.

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Taylor, Mark A. "Edward W. Said : resistance, knowledge, criticism." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/23149.

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The prodigious output of the controversial Palestinian-American public intellectual, academic, and political activist Edward W. Said (1935-2003), continues to polarize the academic, intellectual, and political worlds, not least because of the inflammatory nature of his relationship to the vexed issue of Israel/Palestine. It is a contention of this thesis that this polarization has resulted in what are often less than critical examinations of Said's work. In short, because Said and his work remain relevant and influential, a new method of reading is required, one which not only takes account of Said's secular, 'worldly' approach to the issue of knowledge and its production, but applies the same rigour and method to the Palestinian's work in all its literary-critical, political, and personal varieties. This thesis attempts to meet that aim by testing Said's oeuvre within the rubric of his stated ambition to create a critical location from which the production of 'non-coercive' knowledge was attainable. In the context of his opposition to political Zionism and wider Western imperialism, whether Said produced, or even intended to produce knowledge that was 'non-coercive' is an extremely important question, and one that will be answered in this thesis. Formed by an introduction and three main chapters, the scope of this thesis is broad. Following an exposition of the biographical 'facts' of Said's life, Chapter One engages his late work, Out of Place. Ostensibly a memoir, Out of Place is subjected to the discipline of Said's own critical concept of 'worldliness' and placed within the much broader context of the author's oeuvre. From this location it is possible to see the memoir as one of a number of narratives competing in the political sphere. Chapter Two deals with the issue of Said's relationship to some of the key thinkers and schools of thought that seemed to inform his work, questioning whether Said resisted inculcation in powerful concepts like humanism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and Marxism or, in fact, permitted these influences to disrupt his desired critical location of homelessness. The final part of the thesis engages with Said's secular, provisional approach to knowledge. First, weaving through the tautly balanced concepts of beginnings and origins in Beginnings: Intention and Method, much of the chapter addresses Said's attack on Western knowledge production in Orientalism, where perversely he produces his own counter-monument to Western colonialism. The chapter ends with a Saidian reading of Said's three principal modes of criticism: secular, contrapuntal, and democratic. The conclusion that emerges from a Saidian,'worldly' reading of Said is perhaps both surprising and, yet, exactly as one might expect. Said was a human being, and human beings are flawed. The first intellectual line out of Said creates a restless critical and philosophical framework with the potential to undermine the second intellectual line out of Said, the political pragmatist always ready to produce coercive knowledge.

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Talaia, Júlia Massoni da Costa. "Humanismo e direitos humanos no pensamento de Edward W. Said." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14661.

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Em Humanismo e Direitos Humanos no Pensamento de Edward W. Said serão analisados e interpretados os preceitos com os quais Said emite os seus pontos de vista em relação ao conflito israelo-palestiniano, bem como a defesa dos direitos do povo palestiniano. Todos os conflitos actuais que violam e desrespeitam os direitos humanos, poderiam ser solucionados se a busca pela verdade fosse um ideal e aposta de todos os seres humanos, representados por um Estado que vela pelos interesses sociais, económicos, políticos e culturais do seu povo. As obras de Edward W. Said serão a base para a elaboração desta dissertação, acompanhadas, evidentemente, de pesquisas documentais adicionais realizadas em torno de temas e/ou autores cujas abordagens científicas se vêem relacionadas com o tema em estudo. Constatar-se-á, a importância de se apreender no humanismo e intelectualismo para melhor se compreender a essência da história da humanidade, a partir da literatura, pois, para ele, a cultura de um povo tem inevitavelmente influência e/ou características das culturas de outros povos; ABSTRACT: In Humanism and the Human Rights on Edward W. Said Thoughts will be done an analytic study about the Edward W. Said thought. It will demonstrate all his precepts about the israelo-palestinian conflicts, the defense of Palestinians people rights as well. For Said, every conflict that violates and disrespects the human rights could be solved if the search by the true was an ideal of all human being. The Works of Edward W. Said will be the base for making this dissertation, supported on additional documentation explored about themes and authors which scientific studies are related with the theme in study. The importance of learning the humanism and intellectualism is found for understanding the essence of humanity history, from literature, because for Said the culture from a people has influence and features from culture of others peoples.

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Ng, Hau-man, and 吳巧文. ""The non-humanist humanist": Edward W. Said and his critical practice." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41633957.

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Schmitz, Markus. "Kulturkritik ohne Zentrum Edward W. Said und die Kontrapunkte kritischer Dekolonisation /." Bielefeld : Transcript, 2008. http://books.google.com/books?id=hpnZAAAAMAAJ.

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Schmitz, Markus. "Kulturkritik ohne Zentrum Edward W. Said und die Kontrapunkte kritischer Dekolonisation." Bielefeld Transcript, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988751224/04.

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Ng, Hau-man. ""The non-humanist humanist" Edward W. Said and his critical practice /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41633957.

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Jones, Nelson Alissa. "Job in dialogue with Edward Said : contrapuntal hermeneutics, pedagogical development, and a new approach to biblical interpretation /." St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/790.

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Goldman, Elisa. "O jogo de espelho das colonizações: nacionalismo e pós-colonialismo na obra de Edward W. Said." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8325.

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O objetivo desse trabalho é compreender a produção intelectual do autor palestino, Edward W. Said, cuja trajetória heterogênea representou em larga medida uma metáfora teórica dos seus maiores dilemas políticos e conceituais, alguns deles constitutivos do objeto dessa tese. Entendemos que Said define a Cultura como lócus privilegiado para compreender a dominação colonial e, posteriormente, incorpora um discurso político para a formação da chamada identidade nacional Palestina. Procuramos demarcar o paradoxo central da sua obra que diz respeito ao convívio teórico da abordagem pós-colonial com a busca da historicidade do ethos nacional palestino. Entendemos que o paradoxo do Nacionalismo, sua estreita vinculação com o debate pós-colonial e os percursos teóricos decorrentes do engajamento progressivo com a causa nacional Palestina subsidiam outras reflexões que possuem interrelação. São essas; a representação do intelectual na sociedade contemporânea, a relação entre texto e realidade histórica, entendida por meio do conceito de mundanidade, a categoria de exílio como condição ontológica e metáfora epistemológica e o problema da relação entre cultura e imperialismo. Esses percursos de análise orientam-se por um objetivo mais geral que é a análise da centralidade e respectiva atualidade da obra de Edward W. Said na Historiografia Pós-Colonial.
The aim of the present work is to understand the intellectual production of the Palestinian author Edward W. Said. His heterogeneous history represented in a larger extent a theoretical metaphor of his major political and conceptual dilemmas, some of them consisting this thesis subject. We understand Said defines culture as a preferential locus in order to comprehend the colonial domination, later on embodying a political speech for the composition of the national Palestinian identity. We have attempted to delimit the main paradox of his work which refers to the theoretical interaction of the post-colonial approach with the historicity of the national Palestinian ethos. We understand that the paradox of Nationalism its close connection to the post-colonial aproach and theoretical courses arising from progressive engagement with the Palestinian national cause subsidizes other reflections interrelated, such as: the intellectual representation in contemporary society; the relation between text and historical reality understood through the concept of worldliness; the category of exile as an ontological condition and epistemological metaphor; and the problem of the culture-imperialism relation. These courses of analyzes have guidance in a broader objective which is the analysis of centrality and the respective present status of Edward Saids work in Post-Colonial Historiography.

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Ferrandis, Ferrer Pau. "El proyecto crítico de Edward Said. Formulaciones, presiones y revisiones." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671049.

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En sus reflexiones sobre la crítica literaria, Said contempla dos principios fundamentales. El primero de estos principios afirma que la experiencia que un individuo puede tener de la sociedad en la que vive es muy limitada; el segundo, que deriva del primero, recomienda al crítico literario comenzar su trajo a partir de los límites de su propia experiencia, teniendo presente, además, cuál es su posición en la sociedad. El proyecto crítico que Said desarrolla a lo largo de su carrera obedece estos dos principios, pero la forma desigual en que los pone en práctica ocasiona una serie de tensiones que recorren toda su obra. Se propone un estudio de estas tensiones que, tomando como punto de partida metodológico dichos principios y teniendo en cuenta su relación con el legado de Vico, Auerbach, Gramsci y Williams, explore el desarrollo del proyecto crítico de Said a lo largo de toda su obra y permita comprender la posición desde la cual lo formula, la cambiante voluntad que motiva dicho proyecto y su capacidad de impacto cultural.
In his reflections on literary criticism, Said contemplates two fundamental principles. The first of these principles states that the experience that an individual can have from the society in which he lives is very limited; the second, which derives from the first, recommends that the literary critic begin his work from the limits of his own experience, bearing in mind, also, what his position in society is. The critical project that Said develops throughout his career obeys these two principles, but the uneven way in which he puts them into practice causes a series of tensions that run throughout his work. A study of these tensions is proposed that, taking these principles as a methodological starting point and taking into account their relationship with the legacy of Vico, Auerbach, Gramsci and Williams, explore the development of Said's critical project throughout his work and allow us to understand the position from which he formulates it, the changing will that motivates that project and its capacity for cultural impact.

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Tintin, Hodén. "Att visualisera Orienten : En närläsning av Linda Nochlins The Imaginary Orient utifrån Edward Said och John M Mackenzie." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-11683.

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According to Edward Said the Orient is a European construction that has arisen out of a need to describe the Western civilisation as culturally superior. This occurrence Said gives the label "Orientalism". Art historian Linda Nochlin takes Said’s theories further in The Imaginary Orient where she conveys the thesis that the pictorial Orientalism is an expression of an imperialistic ideology. John M. Mackenzie, on the other hand is of the opinion that the pictorial Orientalism rather is an expression of the Romantic movement. To understand the Orientalist art we have to consider the social and historical context in which the work was created. By trying to justify the Orientalists choice of motive Mackenzie takes the view of those who consider art history as a positive discipline. Nochlin on the other hand means that we instead of fortifying the art historical canon we ought to politicize it, which only is possible if we contemplate art history as a critical rather than a positive discipline.

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Ramzy, Rasha I. "Communicating cosmopolitanism an analysis of the rhetoric of Jimmy Carter, Vaclav Havel, and Edward Said /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12012006-140441/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. David Cheshier, committee chair; George Pullman, Carol Winkler, Mary Stuckey, James Darsey, committee members. Electronic text (226 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 5, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-226).

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El-Sheikh, Tammer. "Strategies of refusal: art and cultural politics in the work of Edward W. Said and Hassan Khan." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121327.

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This dissertation examines the thought of Palestinian-American literary scholar Edward W. Said and selected works by London-born Egyptian artist Hassan Khan. Through a comparison and contrast of their respective approaches to the production and critique of Arab representations I argue that Said's work from the 1970s and 1980s is of lasting importance for art historians dealing with contemporary art from the Middle East in general and Khan's work in particular. Much recent scholarship on contemporary art in the Middle East and Egypt has focused on features of artworks that contribute to notions of Arab political, ethnic and national identity. While such studies are valuable in describing the social and political contexts of emerging Middle Eastern art practices, they often pass over the formal, stylistic and aesthetic strategies employed by artists in the region. Through an examination of Said's published writing and his unpublished correspondence, I argue that his approach to literary and visual art interpretation accounts for both identity-political and more strictly formal or stylistic features of artworks and practices from the contemporary Middle East. In this dissertation I examine Said's interpretative strategies to prepare for an analysis of selected artworks by Hassan Khan. This is not a regional study of Arab or Middle Eastern art. Indeed, Said's work and Khan's, albeit in different contexts, with different means and to varying degrees challenges and often refuses generalizations about political, ethnic and national identity on which regional art histories are based. This dissertation thus aims to describe Said's and Khan's critical, highly individual and often eccentric approaches to Arab representations, rather than represent and identify them as Arabs, and explain their work as a consequence or expression of such a fixed identity. In the interest of preserving the particularity of Said's work and of Khan's I examine their reckoning with these problems in context.
Cette dissertation examine la pensée de l'homme de lettres palestinien-américain Edward W. Said, ainsi qu'une sélection d'oeuvres de l'artiste égyptien d'origine londonaise Hassan Khan. En comparant et contrastant leurs approches respectives de la production et critique des représentations des arabes, je soutiens que l'oeuvre de Said entre 1970 et 1980 est d'une importance durable pour les historiens de l'art, du moyen orient en général, et particulièrement dans le cas de l'œuvre de Khan. Un grande part des recherches académiques récentes portant sur l'art contemporain moyen oriental et égyptien porte sur les aspects d'œuvres d'art qui contribuent aux notions d'identité politique, ethnique et culturelle arabe. Tandis que ces études ont la vertu de décrire le contexte social et politique de pratiques artistiques émergentes au moyen orient, celles-ci omettent souvent d'examiner les stratégies de représentation formelles, stylistiques et esthétiques, employées par les artistes de cette région. En examinant les écrits publiés et ses correspondances non-publiées de Said, je soutiens que ses stratégies d'interprétation de l'art littéraire et visuel s'appliquent tant aux aspects identitaires-politiques qu'aux aspects strictement formels ou stylistiques d'œuvres d'art et de pratiques du moyen orient contemporain. Dans cette dissertation j'examine les stratégies d'interprétation de Said afin de préparer une analyse d'une sélection d'œuvres d'art de Hassan Khan. Il ne s'agit pas d'une étude régionale d'art arabe ou moyen oriental. En effet, malgré que l'œuvre de Said et de Khan proviennent de différents contextes, avec des stratégies de représentation distinctes qui à divers degrés mettent en cause et refusent les généralisations portant sur l'identité politique, ethnique et nationale sur laquelle se basent les études régionales de l'histoire de l'art. Cette dissertation vise donc à décrire les approches critiques, hautement individuelles et souvent excentriques, plutôt que de les représenter et identifier comme arabes, expliquant leur œuvre comme la conséquence ou expression d'une telle identité fixe. Dans le but de préserver la particularité de l'œuvre de Said et de celle de Khan, j'examine contextuellement leur évaluation et production de représentations arabes.

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McGlennan, Martin Catherine L. "A contrapuntal examination of selected works by Roger Vailland and Ousmane Sembène, 1950-1960." Connect to e-thesis, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/731/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2001.
Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, Department of French Language and Literature, University of Glasgow, 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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Jones, Nelson Alissa D. "Job in dialogue with Edward Said : contrapuntal hermeneutics, pedagogical development, and a new approach to Biblical interpretation." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/790.

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Biblical interpretation in the contemporary context of globalisation faces a variety of challenges. This thesis addresses the challenges presented to the discipline by the incorporation of poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and liberation theologies, particularly the problem of interpretive ghettoisation and the ethics of contemporary biblical interpretation. It proposes one possible answer to the question of how the field of biblical hermeneutics can move beyond the segregation passively encouraged by subjectivity and self-determination toward the integration of academic and vernacular hermeneutics in the interests of justice for the dominated and the reconstitution of the dominant. This thesis first presents the interpretive theories of Edward W. Said, addresses the major criticisms of his work, and proceeds to discuss the adaptation of his concept of contrapuntal reading to the interpretation of biblical texts. Second, it presents a survey of current work in the field which attempts to overcome the gap between academic and vernacular hermeneutics and critiques these approaches in light of Said’s concepts. Third, it presents the book of Job as an appropriate context in which to explore the possibilities of contrapuntal hermeneutics. This section analyses various academic and vernacular interpretations of the book of Job and places these interpretations in contrapuntal dialogue over the course of three chapters. The first of these chapters explores the possibilities for dialogue between those interpretations that view suffering as a key theme in the book and those that do not; the second chapter explores interpretations of the book of Job and the issue of suffering in various Euro-North American psychological contexts and in various African contexts of HIV/AIDS; and the third chapter juxtaposes academic and vernacular interpretations of the book of Job in various Asian contexts. Finally, the study closes with an argument for pedagogical reform based upon the ethical and interpretive insights of contrapuntal hermeneutics.

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Trusler, Marjorie Anne Field. "The perception of the United States in La región más transparente, Gringo viejo and La frontera de cristal by Carlos Fuentes." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1096.

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Selby, Don. "Bridging the gap? : a critical reading of Bhabha, Said and Spivak's postcolonial positions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0001/MQ43947.pdf.

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Gunn, Torri Kenneth. "Defining Religion with Chinese Characters: Interrogating the Criticism of the Freedom of Religion in China." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19878.

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This thesis seeks to explore the points of dissonance and resonance around the understanding and deployment of the term 'religion' between Human Rights Watch, and the government of the People's Republic of China. In doing this, it is highlighted that a fundamental disjunction exists in the meaning of, and the boundaries of, the word 'religion' between these two groups. The space that this difference creates makes discussions on religion and religious freedom between these two groups extremely problematic, primarily because Human Rights Watch seeks to protect the right to religious freedom of groups and individuals that the Chinese government does not consider ‘religion’, but that Human Rights Watch demands they should. This thesis addresses the question of the role of social and cultural relativism in the defining, and the subsequent role in defending, of the term and contents of 'religion'.

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Therén, Sebastian. "Att framställa ”den andre” : En analys av hur Nobelpristagarna i litteratur Bunin och Mistral skildrades i det offentliga rummet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41908.

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In this essay I’ve been looking to extend the knowledge regarding the construction as someone as “the other”. The aim is to examine if it is possible to depict and find a general picture of ”the other”, as he/she is described in the media. I’m not alone in examining this, and I present several works which are somewhat similar to this essay. My work is special however, in that I’ve decided to examine the picture of “the other" by examining how four different Swedish newspapers wrote about the first Russian and the first Chilean Nobel prize winner in literature, Ivan Bunin (1933) and Gabriela Mistral (1945). To be more specific, I’ve been asking the following thematic questions, to find answers to my initial question: Is “the other” portrayed differently, as a result of the winners’ native countries? Is "the other” portrayed differently, as a result of the winners’ social class or gender? Is it possible to distinguish any interesting differences and similarities in how “the other” is constructed, in diverse political schools? Through my findings I’ve discovered that the term “the other” isn’t a homogenous one, as it varies from situation to situation. In Bunin’s case the political aspect of the term tended to outweigh the ethnical one. In other words, the fact that Bunin, in the reporting, is constructed as someone who can represent the political views of the magazine (or is otherfied, as someone who’s representing deviating views), was considered more interesting than portraying a picture of Russia as “the other”. In Mistral’s case the newspapers tended to focus more on her otherness, as a female, in contrast to how the maleness is considered to be normal. There’s also a view of South American people as a whole – as embodied in Mistral – as something different and “other” compared to the Swedish.

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Hamad, Hussein. "Läroboks-muslimer : En postkolonial diskursanalys av gymnasieskolansläroböcker." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Pedagogiskt arbete, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-25521.

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Uppsatsen Läroboks-muslimer behandlar postkoloniala föreställningar och stereotyper i läromedel avsedda för den svenska gymnasieskolan. Studiens syfte har varit att kartlägga och analysera hur islam och muslimer framställs i fyra av gymnasieskolans läroböcker; tillvägagångssättet studien använt sig av har varit att genom diskursanalysen som metod och med avstamp i den kritiska postkoloniala teoribildningen, kartlägga och analysera postkoloniala typifieringar av islam och muslimer med avgränsning på om och i sådana fall hur, läromedelsförfattarna skildrar: 1. Jihad, och 2. Islams kvinnosyn. Resultatet visar att den historiska västerländska diskurs, vilken porträtterar islam och muslimen som blodtörstig, våldsbejakande, kvinnoföraktande och misogyn, fortfarande dominerar och florerar i de granskade läroböckerna. Beträffande skildringen av jihad går det att finna en märkbar utveckling i en av läroböckerna som framställer begreppet komplext och nyanserat. Vad gäller islams kvinnosyn så präglas porträtteringen, i likhet med jihadbegreppet, i mångt och mycket av stereotypt och tendentiöst urval. Studiens analys- och diskussionsavsnitt behandlar hur dessa fynd kan sättas i ett större historiskt sammanhang och kopplas till en postkolonial epistemologisk produktion som stakat ut riktlinjerna för en dominerande samhällsdiskurs om islam och muslimer.

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Reinholdsson, Oskar. "Bro över mörka vatten : En diskursanalys av debatten i den svenska riksdagen rörande Turkiet." Thesis, Linköping University, Political Science, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-58736.

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Aksoy, Seda. "Turken – Europas ”Den Andre” : En kritisk diskursanalys om den svenska medierapporteringen om debatten kring Turkiet och EU." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-58867.

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Uppsatsen behandlar den svenska medierapporteringen kring Turkiet och EU. Syftet var att undersöka om det fanns några imperialistiska och- eller kolonialistiska tankestrukturer i artiklarna kring Turkiets EU-anslutning i Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet. Frågeställningen ämnade till att undersöka två frågor. Den första frågan syftade till att redogöra för hur rapporteringen kring Turkiet och EU sett ut i DN och SvD från och med 1999-då Turkiet officiellt accepterades som kandidatland till EU–fram till 2008. Den andra frågan syftade till att undersöka och belysa om det fanns drag av imperialistiska och- eller orientaliska tankemönster i dessa artiklar. Materialet till undersökningen består av tio artiklar av olika slag, fem stycken från Dagens Nyheter och fem stycken från Svenska Dagbladet, vilka hittades i mediearkivet.se. Teorin som användes i undersökningen är Edward Said's teori om Orientalism. Orientalism redogör för hur framställningarna ”Orienten” i bland annat Europeiska romaner och reseskildringar bidrog till att upprätta en dikotomi mellan européerna och ”de Andra”. Denna dikotomi var central för skapandet av den europeiska kulturen och för att hålla kvar och utveckla makten över Orienten. Kunskapen om Orienten är således långt ifrån objektiv eftersom den producerades av Västerlandet, som ett sätt att förhålla sig till- och kontrollera Orienten. Orientalism ifrågasätter objektiviteten och oskulden inom den västerländska forskningen. I studien har jag även använt mig av Richard Dyer's teori om ”den vita normen” där han menar att ”ras” är något man endast applicerar på icke-vita människor, och beskriver samt diskuterar den vita normens egenskaper. Metoden som tillämpades för att analysera artiklarna var kritisk diskursanalys. Kritisk diskursanalys används för textstudier som syftar till att undersöka texten som en social handling och inte enbart se på dem som informationsbärare. Metoden kam användas till att utforska dolda tankemönster eller ideologier bakom texternas utformning. Jag använde mig av Peter Berglez analysverktyg tematisk struktur, schematisk struktur, frånvarande information och närvarande implikationer, lexikal stil samt politisk/historiska kontextualiseringar. Resultatet av min analys påvisade att det- i de undersökta artiklarna- fanns drag av orientaliska och imperialistiska tankestrukturer i diskursen kring Turkiet och den EU. Turkiet tillskrevs två olika roller som bär typiska mönster för ett imperialistiskt och orientaliskt tankemönster. Antingen så beskrevs Turkiet som den ”underlägsna” Orientalen som ständigt försöker efterlikna europén, genom EU, för kontroll över Turkiet och chansen att påverka resten av mellanöstern, genom Turkiet som ett verktyg, eller som den historiskt rotade västerländska tanken om ”turkfaran”, som ständigt utgör ett hot för Europa.

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Gustavsson, Per. "Ska vi se på film idag? : En undersökning av hur AV - media Kronobergs filmer framställer hinduismen." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-11377.

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AbstractFilm är något som använts i skolan under en lång tid. Film är dock något som används relativtokritiskt. Den källa som lärare normalt använder för att visa film är AV-Media. I dennaundersökning har fyra av AV-Media Kronobergs filmer om hinduismen undersökts: Världensreligioner: Hinduismen och tre delar ur serien Kort om Indien.Teorin bygger i huvudsak på tre böcker, Umberto Ecos Den frånvarande Strukturen, Bill NicholsRepresenting Reality, Mattew Bernstein och Gaylyn Studlars Visions of the East, Orientalism inFilm. Samt Edward Saids Orientalism. Eco används för att spåra en struktur i filmerna, strukturenframträder genom att motsatspar identifieras. Bill Nichols används för att se vilken påverkanfilmernas stil har.I undersökningens analys framträder en struktur med motsatspar. I hela filmerna finns ettöverliggande motsatspar som är Indien – västvärlden. Detta motsatspar förstärks av en mängd andramotsatspar som tillskriver Indien och västvärlden olika egenskaper. I analysen blir det tydligt attfilmernas stil leder till att de sänder ut orientalistiska budskap. Det framkommer också att det finnsen latent orientalism hos såväl tittare som filmskapare.

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Atreus, Haydar. "Den Omvända Orientalismen : En kritisk jämförelse mellan läroböckernas islambild och muslimernas." Thesis, Södertörn University College, Lärarutbildningen, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-194.

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Denna uppsats tar sin utgångspunkt i en problematiserande läsning av Edward Saids kritik av främst den västeuropeiska kulturens negativa representationer av framförallt den arabisk-islamska världen. Genom att ta fasta på teorins anti-essentialistiska grundpoäng ifrågasätts dess icke uttalade men effektiva tendens att återproducera en missvisande dikotomi. Endast ett sådant ifrågasättande kan på allvar öppna möjligheten att se bortom föreställningen om araberna som passiva och viljelösa offer. En analys av muslimska författares kritik av islambilden i europeiska skolböcker, jämförd med hur islam framställs i svenska historieläroböcker, visar att de senare är långt mer anti-orientalistiska än muslimernas egna islambild. Muslimerna och islam behandlas som historiska fenomen, styrda av samma sociala och ekonomiska faktorer som de som format de västeuropeiska samhällena. De muslimska författarnas kritik handlar dock om ett envist försök att ahistoriesera islam: en plädering för att den endast ska fattas i en teologisk/filosofiskt bemärkelse.

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Åberg, Malin. "Lärobokshinduism : En studie om hur hinduism framställs i skolböcker för gymnasieskolan mellan åren 1998-2013." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-47550.

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This essay analyses how Hinduism is portrayed within different textbooks produced for students attending senior high school in Sweden, spanning the years of 1998 until 2013. The analysis itself aims to identify any orientalist tendencies within the textbooks as well as how gender is portrayed. The textbooks are analysed from a set of criteria, namely, content, visual text, gender and text analysis. The analysis also examines what changes occur in regards to how textbooks portray Hinduism in the courses Religion A and Religion 1. Textbooks constitute a dominant part of the Swedish education system which makes the findings of this essay relevant and important for educators. The theory which acts as a foundation for this essay has been adapted from Edward Said’s Orientalism. Said argues that Orientalism is a political strategy which uses stereotypical descriptions of Hinduism to show the strength and superiority of the West. The textbooks studied here contain Orientalist tendencies to a varying degree and Hinduism as a religion is portrayed in a simplistic manner throughout. Hinduism is also portrayed in sharp contrast to the structure of western society as a primitive religion in a way that is not fully consistent with how Hinduism is practiced in India and around the world today. There are tendencies toward latent orientalist perspectives. The gender perspective in regards to actual text is roughly unchanged throughout all the material used in the study. However, when viewing the images contained within the material, changes have been dramatic and the more recent textbooks now lean towards being dominated by illustrations of females as opposed to males. The major change in discourse took place between the textbooks connected to Religion A and the books connected to Religion 1. There were significantly less orientalist tendencies present in the textbooks adapted to Religion 1 and a clear pattern could be discerned. Where orientalist tendencies had been diminished the authors had instead attached explanations to the text and expanded upon the subject-matter enabling the reader to gain a greater understanding of what everyday life as a Hindu entails. Another change which could be found in the analysis is that recent textbooks had adapted its subject-matter to conform to how the realities of Hinduism in India and the rest of the world actually look like today. The outdated and stereotypical attributes previously attached to Hinduism based on a western viewpoint have thus faded or been replaced altogether.

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Lok, Mai-chi Ian. "Cultural understanding in English studies an exploration of postcolonial and world Englishes perspectives /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35804749.

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Figueroa, José Antonio. "Realismo mágico, vallenato y vIolencia politica en el Caribe Colombiano." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2007. http://worldcat.org/oclc/453505700/viewonline.

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Alenzi, Suad A. H. S. M. "'I am neither there, nor here' : an analysis of formulations of post-colonial identity in the work of Edward W. Said and Mahmoud Darwish : a thematic and stylistic analytical approach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/i-am-neither-there-nor-herean-analysis-of-formulations-of-postcolonial-identity-in-the-work-of-edward-w-said-and-mahmoud-darwisha-thematic-and-stylistic-analytical-approach(da190801-ecd1-4a38-a121-c688ed6c1da8).html.

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This thesis examines the work of two of the twentieth century’s foremost cultural figures, the Palestinian-American literary critic Edward Said (1935-2003) and the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), and focuses specifically on the formulation and representation in their respective work of the theme of identity. It explores the depictions of this concept in their writing; comparing and contrasting their personal viewpoints on the various facets of their own identity as Palestinian Arabs and cosmopolitan global citizens expressed through their chosen literary medium, prose for Said and poetry for Darwish. At the same time, this analysis of the creative writing of these two authors will serve to shed light on the complex and ongoing process which is involved in identity formation and maintenance, and conceptualization of the self. Said and Darwish’s multi-conceptualisations of self-identity take place in Chapter Three, which is divided into seven zones of self-identity. Their understanding of self-identity is observed through the spaces of their names, language, family relationships, friendships, ethnicities, nationalism, hybrid identities, and cosmopolitanism. The concept of post-Nakba and Naksa literature maps the critical developments in evaluations of Arabic literature and, more particularly, Palestinian literature. The understanding of Palestinian cultural context requires an adequate assimilation regarding the impact of Nakba and Naksa in Palestinian literature, linked strongly with the general impact of Nakba in all Arab literature. The thesis begins by establishing the major socio-political, cultural and historical contexts which shaped the lives and work of Said and Darwish. Then using an innovative theoretical framework which draws on elements of post-colonial theory Said’s own contrapuntal technique and close textual analysis, the thesis explores a number of key facets pertaining to identity construction which it can be argued are of particular relevance to the Palestinian case. These include trauma, collective cultural memories, displacement, the Diasporic experience and the dream of return. At the same time, the thesis reveals how whilst both Said and Darwish remained dedicated to the Palestinian cause they adopted a cosmopolitan identity which was reflected in their respective work and its identification with diverse groups of oppressed peoples.

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Dahlan, Kinda. "Between Us and Them: Deconstructing Ideologies behind the Portrayal of Saudi Women in Canadian Media." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20145.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate binary discourses of self and other constructed by Canadian media in the representation of Saudi women. One of the modest aims of this research is to expound on the status of centralized media coverage in Canada. Drawing on Hegel’s model of dialectics, as framed by Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) and David Nikkel’s conception of a moderate postmodernism, this research also aims at contributing to the ongoing modern-postmodern discussion by delineating and examining the ways in which dialectical analysis can aid in the deconstruction of metanarratives in Western culture. Utilizing a qualitative research design that employs multidimensional modes of textual analysis, the thesis examined the changes in the portrayal of Saudi Women through a non-probability sampling of 88 Canadian newspaper articles selected from the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and National post between 2001-2009. One major finding was that the metanarratives guiding these representations did not change significantly despite changes in narratives as brought about by several major political events. The implications of this thesis revealed what the ideological influences framing these depictions, as well as whether or not the changes that they have undergone, were self-reifying in nature. The research also highlighted the implications resulting from assessing the ontological identities of Saudi women vis-à-vis a Western framework of values.

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Dowell, Remona Jeannine. "Culture, Gender, and Agency: What Anthropology of the Arab World Offers Conflict Management." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1386975915.

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Niskanen, Anoo. "Flykten : en tolkning av exil." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26914.

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The main purpose of this thesis is to discuss what exile writing is and who can be seen as an exile writer. If the word “exile” is related to forced dislocation, like Paul Tabori and Sopia A. McClennen describes it, who can be viewed as an exile writer? Is Anders Olsson’s definition of an exile writer acceptable or not? Could the The Escape, a future story about exiled Northern Europeans in Myanmar, be classified as exile literature? Another purpose with this text is to describe how a story about exile can be made realistic and tangible to a reader who has not experienced exile. How can the exile experience be shown in a text? The third major aim with this thesis is to discuss how an ethnographic study differs from a fictive novel about another culture. Is an academic text more close to reality than fiction and what is reality anyway? Is it possible to make a mix of an academic study and a fictive novel?

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Heinze, Franziska. "Postkoloniale Theorie." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220194.

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Postkoloniale Theorie bezeichnet ein breites Spektrum theoretischer Zugänge zu und kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit historischen und gegenwärtigen Machtverhältnissen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus und seinen bis heute währenden Fortschreibungen stehen. Als Gründungsdokument postkolonialer Theorie gilt Edward Saids Studie „Orientalism“ (1978). Postkoloniale feministische Theorie fokussiert auf die Situation von Frauen bzw. auf vergeschlechtlichte Identitäten in (neo-)kolonialen Settings. Neben der Konstruktion von Gender und Geschlechterrollen sind Sexualität und Begehren wichtige Topoi postkolonialer Theorie. Ein weiteres Themenfeld stellt die Dekonstruktion eurozentrischen / westlichen Wissens dar.

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Heinze, Franziska. "Postkoloniale Theorie." Universität Leipzig, 2015. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15382.

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Postkoloniale Theorie bezeichnet ein breites Spektrum theoretischer Zugänge zu und kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit historischen und gegenwärtigen Machtverhältnissen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus und seinen bis heute währenden Fortschreibungen stehen. Als Gründungsdokument postkolonialer Theorie gilt Edward Saids Studie „Orientalism“ (1978). Postkoloniale feministische Theorie fokussiert auf die Situation von Frauen bzw. auf vergeschlechtlichte Identitäten in (neo-)kolonialen Settings. Neben der Konstruktion von Gender und Geschlechterrollen sind Sexualität und Begehren wichtige Topoi postkolonialer Theorie. Ein weiteres Themenfeld stellt die Dekonstruktion eurozentrischen / westlichen Wissens dar.

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Williams, Terrol Roark. "Taking Mormons Seriously: Ethics of Representing Latter-day Saints in American Fiction." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1936.pdf.

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Martin, Jocelyn S. "Re/membering: articulating cultural identity in Philippine fiction in English." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210163.

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This dissertation examines how Philippine (or Filipino) authors emphasise the need for articulating or “re/membering” cultural identity. The researcher mainly draws from the theory of Caribbean critic, Stuart Hall, who views cultural identity as an articulation which allows “the fragmented, decentred human agent” to be considered as one who is both “subject-ed” by power but/and one who is capable of acting against those powers (Grossberg 1996 [1986]: 157, emphasis mine). Applied to the Philippine context, this writer argues that, instead of viewing an apparent fragmented Filipino identity as a hindrance to “defining” cultural identity, she views the “damaged” (Fallows 1987) Filipino history as a the material itself which allows articulation of identity. Instead of reducing the cultural identity of a people to what-they-could-have-been-had-history-not-intervened, she puts forward a vision of identity which attempts to transfigure these “damages” through the efforts of coming-to-terms with history. While this point of view has already been shared by other critics (such as Feria 1991 or Dalisay 1998:145), the author’s contribution lies in presenting re/membering to describe a specific type of articulation which neither permits one to deny wounds of the past nor stagnate in them. Moreover, re/membering allows one to understand continuous re-articulations of “new” identities (due to current migration), while putting an “arbitrary closure” (Hall) to simplistic re-articulations which may only further the “lines of tendential forces” (such as black or brown skin bias) or hegemonic practices.

Written as such (with a slash),“re/membering” encapsulates the following three-fold meaning: (1) a “re-membering”, to indicate “a putting together of the dismembered past to make sense of the trauma of the present” (Bhabha 1994:63); as (2) a “re-membering” or a re-integration into a group and; as (3) “remembering” which implies possessing “memory or … set [ting] off in search of a memory” (Ricoeur 2004:4). As a morphological unit, “re/membering” designates, the ways in which Filipino authors try to articulate cultural identity through the routes of colonisation, migration and dictatorship.

The authors studied in this thesis include: Carlos Bulosan, Bienvenido Santos, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Nick Joaquin, Frank Sionil José, Ninotchka Rosca, Jessica Hagedorn, and Merlinda Bobis. Sixty-years separate Bulosan’s America is in the Heart (1943) from Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle (2003). Analysis of these works reveals how articulation is both difficult and hopeful. On the one hand, authors criticize the lack of efforts and seriousness towards articulation of cultural identity as re/membering (coming to terms with the past, fostering belonging and cultivating memory). Not only is re/membering challenged by double-consciousness (Du Bois 1994), dismemberment and forgetting, moreover, its necessity is likewise hard to recognize because of pain, trauma, phenomena of splitting, escapist attitudes and preferences for a “comfortable captivity”.

On the other hand, re/membering can also be described as hopeful by the way authors themselves make use of literature to articulate identity through research, dialogue, time, reconciliation and re-creation. Although painstaking and difficult, re/membering is important and necessary because what is at stake is an articulated Philippine cultural identity. However, who would be prepared to make the effort?

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Cette thèse démontre que, pour les auteurs philippins, l’articulation ou « re/membering » l'identité culturelle, est nécessaire. Le chercheur s'appuie principalement sur la théorie de Stuart Hall, qui perçoit l'identité culturelle comme une articulation qui permet de considérer l’homme assujetti capable aussi d'agir contre des pouvoirs (cf. Grossberg 1996 [1986]: 157). Appliquée au contexte philippin, cet auteur soutient que, au lieu de la visualisation d'une identité fragmentée apparente comme un obstacle à une « définition » de l'identité culturelle, elle regarde l’histoire philippine «abîmée» (Fallows 1987) comme le matériel même qui permet l'articulation d’identité. Au lieu de réduire l'identité culturelle d'un peuple à ce qu’ ils auraint pû être avant les interventions de l’histoire, elle met en avant une vision de l'identité qui cherche à transfigurer ces "dommages" par un travail d’acceptation avec l'histoire.

Bien que ce point de vue a déjà été partagé par d'autres critiques (tels que Feria 1991 ou Dalisay 1998:145), la contribution de l'auteur réside dans la présentation de « re/membering » pour décrire un type d'articulation sans refouler les plaies du passé, mais sans stagner en elles non plus. De plus, « re/membering » permet de comprendre de futures articulations de « nouvelles » identités culturelles (en raison de la migration en cours), tout en mettant une «fermeture arbitraire» (Hall) aux ré-articulations simplistes qui ne font que promouvoir des “lines of tendential forces” (Hall) (tels que des préjugés sur la couleur brune ou noire de peau) ou des pratiques hégémoniques.

Rédigé en tant que telle (avec /), « re/membering » comporte une triple signification: (1) une «re-membering », pour indiquer une mise ensemble d’un passé fragmenté pour donner un sens au traumatisme du présent (cf. Bhabha, 1994:63); (2) une «re-membering» ou une ré-intégration dans un groupe et finalement, comme (3)"remembering", qui suppose la possession de mémoire ou une recherche d'une mémoire »(Ricoeur 2004:4). Comme unité morphologique, « re/membering » désigne la manière dont les auteurs philippins tentent d'articuler l'identité culturelle à travers les routes de la colonisation, les migrations et la dictature.

Les auteurs inclus dans cette thèse sont: Carlos Bulosan, Bienvenido Santos, NVM Gonzalez, Nick Joaquin, Frank Sionil José, Ninotchka Rosca, Jessica Hagedorn, et Merlinda Bobis. Soixante ans séparent America is in the Heart (1943) du Bulosan et le Dream Jungle (2003) du Hagedorn. L'analyse de ces œuvres révèle la façon dont l'articulation est à la fois difficile et pleine d'espoir. D'une part, les auteurs critiquent le manque d'efforts envers l'articulation en tant que « re/membering » (confrontation avec le passé, reconnaissance de l'appartenance et cultivation de la mémoire). Non seulement est « re/membering » heurté par le double conscience (Du Bois 1994), le démembrement et l'oubli, en outre, sa nécessité est également difficile à reconnaître en raison de la douleur, les traumatismes, les phénomènes de scission, les attitudes et les préférences d'évasion pour une captivité "confortable" .

En même temps, « re/membering » peut également être décrit comme plein d'espoir par la façon dont les auteurs eux-mêmes utilisent la littérature pour articuler l'identité à travers la recherche, le dialogue, la durée, la réconciliation et la re-création. Bien que laborieux et difficile, « re/membering » est important et nécessaire car ce qui est en jeu, c'est une identité culturelle articulée des Philippines. Mais qui serait prêt à l'effort?

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Li, Jhih-Han, and 李芝函. "《Orientalism》：Edward W. Said and the Resistance to Western Colonial Discourse." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42974038772457878605.

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Hou, Yuan-Chun, and 侯元鈞. "“Orientalism”of Edward W. Said and its Implication to Curriculum Reform of Primary and Secondary Schools in Taiwan." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83037210984418985872.

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碩士
國立台北師範學院
課程與教學研究所
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The purpose of this research is discovering the implication to curriculum reform of primary and secondary schools in Taiwan based on the concept of “Orientalism” raised by postcolonial critic Edward W. Said. First, researcher connect analyses of literary criticism of Edward W. Said such as “Travelling Theory” , ”Theory of Texts” , ”Secular Criticism” and “the Role of Intellectual” with criticism to issues about ideological domination, suppress of cultural hegemony and intergrowth of knowledge and power in “Orientalism”. Then, researcher conclude “Orientalism” as two core “strategy of textual representation” and “controlling of cultural hegemony”, and then searching for its enlightenment to curriculum reform of primarry and secondary schools in Taiwan. As for the scope of discussing to curriculum reform, researcher intent to focus it on the process of decision-making, ideas, nature, goals, content, organization, role of teachers, assessment and relationship between teacher and student. What engrave on my mind is making some reconstruction and suggestions after seriously criticizing and deconstructing.

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Sjöström, Viktor. "Profeten och den heliga skriften : En studie och analys av fyra religionsläroböcker mellan åren 1994-2014." Thesis, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-299593.

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Sammanfattning Målet med min studie är att undersöka och analysera fyra olika läromedel avsedda för högstadieskolan utifrån termen orientalism. Hur gestaltas Muhammed och koranen i de utvalda läroböckerna utifrån Edward W Saids teori och terminologi orientalismen. Den avgränsade perioden för detta arbete börjar med en lärobok från året 1994 och avslutas med en lärobok publicerad år 2014. De två andra läroböckerna som används i denna studie är publicerade 1999 och 2003. Debatten om islam som religion är i den moderna kontexten vanligt förekommande både i massmedia och i en politisk debatt. Skolans läromedel är många gånger den första källan eleven möter i arbetet med andra religioner där av granskas och analyseras läromedel och deras framställning av Muhammed och koranen utifrån Saids teorier om Orienten. Den konklusion jag når fram till utifrån denna undersökning är att det finns en viss skillnad mellan de fyra olika utvalda läromedlen och att det sker en förändring över tid mellan böckerna. Samt att den först publicerade läroboken som undersökts har ett annat språk och andra tolkningar om Muhammed och koranen jämfört med de tre andra läroböckerna som försöker gestalta Muhammed och koranen på ett mer nyanserat sätt.

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Fernandes, Rui André de Macedo. "Wenceslau de Moraes." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/33742.

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u a 1 de julho d e 1929. Marinheiro, escritor, d iplomata e orientalista são algumas das facetas que p o deremos asso ciar à p ersonalidade em questão, mas tal não basta. Falamos de um via jante p ortuguês, que p ela sua condição de marin heiro, ru mou ao exótico desenvolvendo uma paixão que se refletia numa vasta obra publicada. Esta paixão p elo exótico encontrou o seu ap ogeu no Japão, lo cal que el egeu como seu último. Estu dar a vida e a obra de Moraes obriga, numa primeira ab ordagem, a contextualizar historicamente o p erío do onde se insere com o ob jetivo de compreender de que forma é que o ambiente p olítico ou económico influenciou a vida de um jovem que decide enveredar p or uma carreira militar na Mari nha de Guerra Portuguesa. Posteriormente, ao fazer o retrato biográfico, imp õ e-se lançar um olh ar à obra que se revela como um guia imprescindível para p erceb er a vida do escritor. O seu p ercurso profissional é marcado p or uma intensa atividade no mar, caracterizado p or inúmeras façanhas que mereceram u m rasto de louvores e apreço p elos seus sup eriores. Ap esar de ainda ser recordado como um marinheiro exímio, o maior legado de Moraes será p ossí velmente a sua obra escrita. A obra d e Wenceslau, que inicialmente se ap onta como um meio para melhor compreender a sua vida, será p osteriormente analisada p or formar a traçar características gerais de um p onto de vista literário. O que nos leva a refletir num fenómeno que se apresenta como uma das problemáticas principais deste estudo, o “orientalismo”. Esta reflexão será alicerçada sobre a linha de p ensamento do autor Edward W. Said, o resp onsável p ela definição e o ap ontamento deste fenómeno como um instrumento para o imp erialismo e colonialismo
Wenceslau José de Sousa Moraes was b orn on May 30, 1854 and died on July 1, 1929. Sailor, writer, diplomat and orientalist are some of the asp ects that we can asso ciate with the ch aracter in question, but this is not enough. We sp eak of a Portuguese traveler, who, due to his condition as a s ail or, went to the exotic, developing a passion that was reflected in a vast published work. This passion for the exotic found its zenith in Japan, which he chose as his last. Studying the life and work of Moraes requires, in a first approach, to historically contextualize the p erio d in which it is ins erted in order to understand how the p olitical or economic environment influenced the life of a young man who decides to embark on a military career in the Portuguese Navy. Later, when making the biographical p ortrait, it is necessary to take a lo ok at th e work that reveals itself as an essential guide to understand the life of the writer. His career p ath is marked by an intense activity at sea, characterized by countless exploits that deserved a trail of praise and appreciation by his su p eriors. Although he is s till rememb ered as an accomplis hed sailor, Moraes’ greatest legacy will p ossibly b e his written work. Wenceslau’s written work, which initially p oints out as a means to b etter understand his life, will later b e analyzed in order to study general features from a literary p oint of view. Which leads us to reflect on a phenomenon that presents itself as one of the main problems of this study, the «Orientalism». This reflection will b e based on the line of thought of the au thor Edward W. Said, the on e resp onsible for defining and p ointi ng out th is phenomenon as an instrument for imp erialism and colonialis m.

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CHENG, Wan-Hsin, and 鄭琬馨. "Musical Elaborations and Experiences of Edward W. Said." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31790987086812159555.

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國立臺灣師範大學
民族音樂研究所
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Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003), one of the most influential cultural and literary scholars on contemporary, graduated from Princeton University (the United States) in 1957. He has gotten MA in English literature from Harvard University in 1960 and PhD in English literature from Columbia University in 1964, and taught English and Comparative Literature in Columbia University from 1963. Said had been participated Palestinian political activities over ten years as an intellectual, while didn’t stop writing and published many books and research, opened Post-colonial theory. In addition, Said was also a music critic. He learnt how to play piano, studied opera, discussed about music; he was involved in music in his whole life. He founded the “West-Eastern Divan Orchestra” in his later years, also expended much time and thought on musical education in the Middle East, and put his musical interest in practice by developing and promoting the Orchestra. This study will expound Said’s musical experiences abundantly and exquisitely, and also make a thorough inquiry how Said heading his musical experiences to musical elaborations and contributions, including many articles of music review and keynote speech (The Annual Wellek Library Lecture Series at the University of California, Irvine) of cross-subject between Comparative Literature and Musicology, citing scholarly writings from musical example, using music as evidence…etc. In last chapter, this study will elaborate the collaboration between internationally renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim (1942- ) and Said in music. Especially they established an orchestra to let the young musicians all around the world have cross-cultural cooperation through the music to achieve peaceful dialogue in 1999. Using a Palestinian-American intellectual as an example, this study hope to give Taiwanese Musicology study a trivial contribution to broaden the possibility of contemplation through other cultures, nation’s issues and successful examples of important international perspectives and scholars.

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Machátová, Bibiana. "Edward W. Said: postkoloniaIní studia a politika literarní teorie." Master's thesis, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-289488.

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I first heard the name of Edward W. Said in a university seminar two years ago. His name was mentioned by one of my American teachers and not many of us knew who Edward Said was. After trying to find out who he was I was amazed that I had never heard about one of the most widely known and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. I was very surprised that this influential author within the fields of literary theory, post-colonial and cultural studies is so little known within the Czech academic sphere. One of the most striking facts is that as of September 2007, there were only five entries by Said in the Czech National Library!. Similarly, only three of his brief essays were translated into Czech? Thus the purpose of this thesis is to grant appropriate attention to Edward W. Said and present an interpretive overview of his work which is necessary before one can begin to place Said in proper perspectives as the individual whom many have claimed as a centrally important twentieth century figure. It will explore Said's contribution to many disciplines ranging from literary theory and criticism to cultural history to postcolonial studies, as well as the literary, cultural, social, and aesthetic roles he has played as an academic intellectual. It will also attempt to interpret the key moments in...

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Kuo, Deborah, and 郭小南. "Translingual Practice: Taking Edward W. Said's Orientalism as an example." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s97gc9.

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輔仁大學
翻譯學研究所在職專班
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Abstract This paper investigates two Chinese translated versions of Edward Said’s book Orientalism – a heavyweight writing of Foucault- and Gramsci-styled discourse telling how the West has produced an “Orient” out of its own will of power while maintaining an “us-against- them” mentality. My goal of this paper is trying to find out how successfully or poorly the translators across the Taiwan Strait have grasped the essence of Said’s English-language book and in turn transformed it into Chinese reading. Accordingly, in the first chapter of the paper, I examined the language backgrounds of the two sides, what translation is and what is about Orientalism. In the second chapter, I surveyed the two Chinese translated versions, their respective translators and how “representations” could be different when the “representers” are different. The aim of the third chapter -- one of the pivotal parts of this thesis -- is then to examine key words of the Orientalism, using them as analytical “points” to gain a better understanding of Orientalism. In the fourth chapter, also an important part, I analyzed the two Chinese versions’ translation, using Orientalism’s sentences and paragraphs as “lines” to discern the entire book and to examine the “translingual practice” from English to mandarin Chinese. In brief, this thesis attempts to explore the possibility of a representation of a knowledge developed from comparing the Chinese translations of an English masterpiece telling the history and truth about how the West saw, created and manipulated the Orient, and their impacts.

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Liao, Chin-hen, and 廖志恆. "The Thinking of Edward W. Said And Its Reflection for Taiwan Multicultural Education." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ugcw8p.

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國立彰化師範大學
教育研究所
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Abstract As the title of “The Thinking of Edward W. Said And Its Reflection for Taiwan Multicultural Education”, the study aims to explore the concept of cultural critic Edward W. Said thoughts and the reality and problems of Taiwan multicultural education. In advanced, from the concept of representation, traveling theory, contrapuntal reading, secular criticism and intellectual by the perspective of Edward W. Said to realize its reflections for Taiwan multicultural education. The conclusions revealed the following: 1.create the multicultural view with multi-perspectives; 2.empasize the context analysis of theory introduction and applied; 3.reflect the meaning of representation in multicultural education; 4.highlight the critical consciousness and social action ability of multicultural teachers; 5.build the critical consciousness and multicultural action ability of students.

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Su, Wei-Feng, and 蘇唯鳳. "Edward W. Said''s Discourse on Post-Colonialism and Its Implications on Comparative Education." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45255668014019680797.

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國立暨南國際大學
比較教育研究所
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Through theoretical analysis this study aims to explore Said’s discourse on Post-Colonialism and its implications on comparative education. The conclusions of this study are as follows: 1. Said’s discourse on Post-Colonialism is influenced by his “out-of -place” life experience, Gramsci’s hegemony theory and Foucault’s power/knowledge discourse. 2. The first main area of his work deals with the political implications of Western colonialism and imperialism. The second main focus of Said’s work is the West’s cultural domination and representation of the East. The third main area of his work is to define the roles and responsibilities of the intellectual in the contemporary world. Said’s fourth central topic is to apply contrapuntal reading to European works. 3.The implications of Said’s work on comparative education are to examine the cultural hegemony on educational and cultural policies; to examine “Orientalism” on comparative education’s texts; to apply contrapuntal reading strategy to re-read comparative education’s texts, and so on.

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Messier, Christine. "Mémoires d'un homme dépaysé : l'auteur Edward Said et les dangers du discours sur l'autre." Mémoire, 2010. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/2754/1/M11278.pdf.

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Cette étude sur l'auteur américano-palestinien, Edward Said, s'inscrit dans un paradigme de recherche en communications interculturelles et internationales. Elle démontre comment l'expérience de vie d'Edward Said, rendue dans l'autobiographie Out of Place, constitue la mise en scène de la construction de l'identité de l'auteur et de la genèse de son discours sur l'Autre tel qu'élaboré dans son oeuvre Orientalism. Ces deux ouvrages composent principalement le corpus du travail. Les objectifs de la présente recherche visent spécifiquement à : 1) Démontrer que Out of Place décrit un homme dépaysé, c'est-à-dire, une identité dualiste, à cheval entre deux mondes sociaux et culturels. 2) Examiner ce qui fait de Said un auteur, c'est-à-dire, sa signature et son autorité d'auteur dans Out of Place et Orientalism. 3) Analyser le discours de Said sur l'Autre dans son oeuvre Orientalism. Exilé aux États-Unis en 1951, Said est habité par une dualité culturelle qui transpire de ses oeuvres. Cette étude constate que l'exil pour un intellectuel peut constituer une expérience profitable. De même, elle établit que la dualité culturelle et la transformation identitaire peuvent former un moteur de création important chez un individu qui devient un auteur. Enfin, l'analyse du discours d'Edward Said sur l'Autre révèle certains des enjeux qui influencent les relations interculturelles et internationales, notamment en contexte de conflit culturel et politique. Les choix méthodologiques de la recherche ont été déterminés par le corpus d'étude. Ainsi, la principale méthode de recherche est l'analyse de contenu. L'analyse documentaire et la contextualisation complètent la démarche méthodologique. Ces techniques, avec le cadre théorique privilégié, ont permis d'étayer les résultats et les conclusions de la recherche. L'auteure de l'étude n'a pas effectué de recherche-terrain spécifique. Mais l'humble chercheure a mis à profit son expérience-terrain, passée et présente, pour éclairer et soutenir son analyse. Il s'agit d'une recherche de type anthroposociologique qui s'intéresse au lien entre l'individu et la société. Les sujets traités sont cohérents avec cette double approche. Avec l'autobiographie d'Edward Said, Out of Place, l'étude aborde l'identité biculturelle, la transformation identitaire et les processus d'acculturation et de transculturation. L'examen des rapports de l'individu aux autres et à la société conclut l'analyse anthropologique. Pour faire la transition vers le niveau sociologique de l'analyse, la recherche examine les caractéristiques de l'écriture d'Edward Said, son identité discursive. Avec l'ouvrage Orientalism, les objets d'attention sont les liens entre savoir et pouvoir ainsi que ceux entre les procédures de représentation et de communication. Ces éléments soutiennent l'analyse du discours de Said. En terminant, cette recherche dégage quelques leçons à tirer du parcours et de la perspective d'Edward Said. Elle réfléchit sur les limites de l'objet choisi et ouvre la porte à d'autres questionnements potentiels. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Biculturalité, Transformation identitaire, Communication interculturelle.

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Katajamaki, Anni 1977. "Desterritorialização e trajecto." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/8274.

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Tese de mestrado, Pintura, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2013
The present dissertation has, as its object of study, the problematic of belonging to a place. This place can be understood as a geographical, cultural, mental or metaphorical one. The intention will be to understand the implications of a place «in-between», a result of specific social-cultural situations related with the ideas of transition, movement and passage. The movements of people in the geographical global map, individuals on dislocation from their cultural and ethnic origins living in the abstract location «in-between», create this space. Concepts such as deterritorialisation, nomadism, existential migration and exile are involved. Belonging to a territory is a question that contains within itself, on the other hand, the idea about the right of existing in a place without belonging to it. The positional opposing of certain concepts as: place vs non-place; Earth (planet) vs territory; property vs occupation, as well as in habitat vs out of habitat, constructs the network of conjunctions approached throughout the dissertation. In the situations «in-between», a so called «survival strategy» is something that comes into consideration. The analysis and de-codification of these strategies and of the surrounding matters form the central focus of the study. The artistic project functions as an individual reformulation, on proposing and presenting alternative ways of processing through the construction of a series of «strategies of subsistence», in the mentioned residing between places

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