Orientalism Archives - Essay Quoll

What did you learn from the article? What meaningful, anti-racist actions can you translate into your future classrooms? What concerns or questions do you have about your article?

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Assessments

Select ONE of these articles to read. After you read your selected article, please write a one-page reaction paper. What did you learn from the article? What meaningful, anti-racist actions can you translate into your future classrooms? What concerns or questions do you have about your article? “The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, […]

How does the idea of empire change across historical periods and affect the production of literature? Refer to two literary texts studied on the module in your answer.

Posted on December 21, 2021 by Ambrose

LITERATURE OF EMPIRE How does the idea of empire change across historical periods and affect the production of literature? Refer to two literary texts studied on the module in your answer. (The two literary texts are Albert Camus, ‘The Adulterous Woman’ and Edward Said ‘Orientalism’)

Explain the concept of “the Other.” What is the relationship of “the Other” to what Edward Said called “Orientalism”?

Posted on October 5, 2021 by Ambrose

Description 1. Explain the concept of “the Other.” What is the relationship of “the Other” to what Edward Said called “Orientalism”? 2. How does visibility function as a form of power in the concept of “panopticism”? Both prompts need to be 500-600 words only

In what ways does Conrad reflect the British attitude of orientalism toward Africa in Heart of Darkness and in what ways does he challenge such attitudes?Discuss

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Ambrose

Description In two to three pages (excluding title and reference pages), discuss the application of orientalism to Conrad’s novel. First, explain in your own words what Said means by orientalism and why he finds it problematic. Then, apply this concept to Heart of Darkness. (If your instructor did not assign Heart of Darkness, you may […]

Book review on Edward Said’s Orientalism:Reviewthe book’s Preface 2003 and Afterword 1995, what did he say in them and why did he feel the need to write them.

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Ambrose

Book review on Edward Said’s Orientalism. Review the main points and themes of the overall book and its three chapters. What did it add to the world? What did he write, how well does he say it and why did he write it?What did the critics think of the book at it’s release and toda? […]

Encompassing a huge number of sources, topics, and discourses; scholarly studies; experiential events; works of art, literature, and visual culture ; and other media, how might the practices and products of 19C Orientalism be understood as a “labyrinth without exits?”Discuss

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Ambrose

Although Timothy Mitchell used the term “labyrinth without exits” to refer specifically to the experiences of Egyptian visitors in Paris, we might also consider this phrase as an apt description of 19C Orientalism more generally. Encompassing a huge number of sources, topics, and discourses; scholarly studies; experiential events; works of art, literature, and visual culture […]