Essays about: "Edward Said"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 essays containing the words Edward Said.

  1. 1. Ralph Ellison and the Postcolonial Identity of Black Invisibility

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Victoria Wendel; [2022]
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    Abstract : This thesis aims to analyse the postcolonial identity of black ‘invisibility’ in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952). It conceptualizes and explains the extended metaphor over the novel, of black identity and how black people are made invisible by historical and cultural factors. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Dream Interpreter : A Historical and Postcolonial Analysis of the Development of Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Nathalie Pontén; [2022]
    Keywords : Wide Sargasso Sea; Jean Rhys; Jane Eyre; Colonialism; Patriarchy; Orientalism; Edward Said;

    Abstract : This essay will discuss Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea from a postcolonial and historical perspective, to show how Rhys’s recreation of Bertha Rochester’s past (Charlotte Brontë’s madwoman in Jane Eyre) can make her end appear triumphant. The analysis will be based on a combination of aspects from the novel’s contemporary English and Caribbean societies and Edward Said’s thoughts about Orientalism, mainly the binary opposition between Europe and the Orient and the creation of Orientalist knowledge. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Multiplicity of Colonial Literature: Using the Portrayal of the Indian Population to Promote Democratic Values and Vocabulary Development in Upper Secondary School

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Michael Lindfors; [2022]
    Keywords : Rudyard Kipling; Edward Said; Paul Nation; Orientalism; vocabulary development; democratic values; second language teaching;

    Abstract : This essay explores the ways colonial short stories by Rudyard Kipling can be used in many different aspects of language teaching in upper secondary school.The analysis takes inspiration from Edward Said’s Orientalism, where he discusses and argues for the prevalence of the phenomenon of Orientalism in the zeitgeist of Western society during the age of European occupation and colonization. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Other from a Colonial and a Postcolonial Perspective : Comparing Othering in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Åke Steinwall; [2022]
    Keywords : Othering; racism; colonialism; Paradise; Heart of Darkness; xenophobia; fear;

    Abstract : In this essay the use of othering in the novels Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah is compared. The comparative reading is carried out through the lens of a postcolonial framework comprising thoughts and ideas of, among others Edward Said and Ania Loomba. READ MORE

  6. 5. American representations of Mexico in the early 1900s : stereographs portraying the other’s modernity and backwardness

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mediehistoria

    Author : Kathya Ninette Nordin; [2022]
    Keywords : Media History; Orientalism; Stereoscope; Visual analysis; Stereograph; Mexico; USA; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis presents the late 19th-century observers as a part of a highly visualized society able to connect with distant places through a very popular visual medium. The stereoscope provided a three-dimensional experience intended for entertainment and education. The thesis focuses on how American stereographic companies portrayed Mexico. READ MORE