Essays on Orientalism

“The Joy Luck Club” is a film focuses on the stories and relationships between four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born Chinese daughters. In the film, the four mothers, Lindo, Ying Ying, An Mei and Suyuan are Chinese women who emigrate from China to America...

In this present paper, I would like to focus on the issue of Orientalism in the academia and see in what sense the Islamization of knowledge is a way out of it. Thus, my research question would be in what sense the decolonization of Orientalism...

Prior to initiate colonization, the writing centres were mostly found in the West and the Easterns did not know how to write in English. But during and after colonialism, the people of the colonized countries started to write in English and postcolonial literature became a...

The discourse of Orientalism is prevalent in everyday life and is often seen through movies, TV and the media. This ideology continues to perpetuate ideas of hate and indifference to many people across the globe. This is done through misguided imitations usually done by writer’s...

For hundreds of years, nations have exerted control of other nations for economic and geographical power and the Middle East is one of the most well-known. European nations, specifically Great Britain, colonized the Middle East for their gain and with the area colonized, along with...

Edward Said was a Palestinian literary activist and theorist following the French philosopher Michel Foucault and post-modernists. He was a key theorist of the post-colonial movement, aiming to put race and ethnicity into social theory. Foucault was a great influence on the development of Said’s...

Throughout the history of “The Orient” it has been concluded that the general circumstances of an Oriental world consists of a cloned society living under the rule of the superior male gender and following a set guideline on how to live, obligated to certain morals...

Since the very beginning of Islam being propagated by the Prophet Muhammad and his companions, there has been strong opposition from those that disbelieved in, or felt threatened by its message of sincerely worshipping one creator and submitting to his way and instructed by his...

Orientalism was an essential part of the imperialist mechanism of control and expansion. Although colonialism is over, the systems of thinking; talking and representing which formed the basis of colonial power relations still persist. A key mechanism in this regard is social media in present...

Stories are not mere words; they are our window in the past and way of conceptualizing what the world looked in a different time, under different conditions, and more importantly how the human experiences back then shaped the society. “Araby” by James Joyce is one...