Essays about: "Orientalism"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 95 essays containing the word Orientalism.

1. 11. Be Proud of Your Menstruation! A case study of commodity feminist discourse in mainland China.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

   Author : Yiyun Zhu; [2022]
   Keywords : Menstruation; Femvertising; Regional adaption; Orientalism; Critical Discourse Analysis CDA ; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Adopting a critical discourse analysis approach, this study presents a case study around the “Menstruation should not be hidden” campaign launched by the Swedish brand, Libresse, in the Chinese market. With the aim to explore how does the brand strategically use female empowering discourse to construct new meanings of menstruation for a regional market, and the socio-cultural factors involved. READ MORE

3. 12. The tourism industry’s support of the Israeli illegal settlements in the West Bank : A discourse analysis on Airbnb’s explanations on their responsibility to respect human rights as well as their involvement in the occupied West Bank

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

   Author : Nora Aissaoui; [2022]
   Keywords : human rights; tourism; postcolonialism; discourse analysis;

   Abstract : The purpose of this bachelor’s thesis is to analyze and deepen the understanding of how the tourist company “Airbnb” explains their responsibility to respect human rights as well as how they explain their involvement in the illegal settlements in the West Bank. These two aspects are the focus of the two research questions that the study aims to answer. READ MORE

4. 13. Framing the YPG and YPJ : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Orientalist and Liberal Feminist Portrayals in United States’ Media and Politics

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Råvan Talani; [2022]
   Keywords : YPG; YPJ; Orientalism; Postcolonial Feminism; Jineology; Critical Discourse Analysis;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses media portrayal of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in US media by making use of Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis. The thesis investigates if these portrayals have been used as a justification by the United States White House to intervene militarily in the conflict in Rojava. READ MORE

5. 14. The Ghost of Orientalism : Case Study of Historical Representations, History Culture and Orientalism in the Video Game Ghost of Tsushima

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

   Author : Willy Malmquist; [2022]
   Keywords : bushidō; orientalism; self-orientalism game; history; historiebruk; historiekultur; datorspelsanalys; Japan; Japanese; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how history is represented in the video game Ghost of Tsushima from 2020. The game is set on the island of Tsushima off the coast of Japan during the Mongol invasion of 1274. Players are placed into this world as the fictive samurai Jin Sakai, fighting to free the island from the Mongol yoke. READ MORE

6. 15. 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