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La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien: réalités, symbolismes et images

Author : Lionel Marti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068886

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La famille dans le Proche-Orient ancien: réalités, symbolismes et images by Lionel Marti Pdf

In July, 2009, the International Association for Assyriology met in Paris, France, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme “La famille dans le Proche-Orient.” This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains 53 of the papers read at the 55th annual Rencontre, including primarily papers directly connected with the theme and some on areas of related interest. The papers covered every period of Mesopotamian history, from the third millennium through the end of the first millennium B.C.E. The photo on the back cover shows only a representative portion of the attendees, who were warmly hosted by faculty and students from the Collège de France.

The Hebrew Orient

Author : Jessica L. Carr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438480848

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The Hebrew Orient by Jessica L. Carr Pdf

In the decades before the establishment of the State of Israel, striking images of Palestine circulated widely among Jewish Americans. These images visualized "the Orient" for American viewers, creating the possibility for Jewish Americans to understand themselves through imagining "Oriental" counterparts. In The Hebrew Orient, Jessica L. Carr shows how images of the Holy Land made Jewish Americans feel at home in the United States by imagining "the Orient" as heritage. Carr's analyses of periodicals from Hadassah and the Zionist Organization of America, art calendars from the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the Jewish Encyclopedia, and the Jewish exhibit at the 1933 World's Fair are richly illustrated. What emerges is a new understanding of the place of Orientalism in American Zionism. Creating a narrative about their origins, Jewish Americans looked east to understand themselves as Westerners.

Orientalism

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804153867

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Orientalism by Edward W. Said Pdf

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Russia's Orient

Author : Daniel R. Brower,Edward J. Lazzerini
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211131

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Russia's Orient by Daniel R. Brower,Edward J. Lazzerini Pdf

From a 1994 conference (U. of California, Berkeley), Borderlands Research Group participants present their findings based on unprecedented access to the hinterlands of what is the now the CIS. Fourteen contributors provide context for the current self- deterministic ethnic turmoil in Chechyna and elsewhere far from the Kremlin, via discussions of tsarist colonial policies and historical, heartland majority attitudes toward the "ignoble savages and unfaithful subjects" (read Muslim) of Russia's diverse Orient. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa

Author : Clare Clarke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351350167

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An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa by Clare Clarke Pdf

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe’s essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe – a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher – looked with fresh eyes at a novel that was set in Africa, but in which Africans appear only as onlookers or as indistinguishable "savages". Dismissing the prevailing portrayal of Joseph Conrad as a liberal hero whose anti-imperialist views insulated him from significant criticism, Achebe re-cast the Polish author as a "bloody racist" in an analysis so cogent it changed the way in which his discipline looked not only at Conrad, but also at all works with settings indicative of racial conflict. The creative contribution of Achebe’s essay lies in delving far beneath the surface of Conrad’s novel; he not only generated new and highly influential hypotheses about the author's modes of thought and motivations, but also redefined the entire debate over Heart of Darkness. Just because the novel had been accepted into the "canon", and now falls into the class of “permanent literature”, Achebe says, does not mean we should not question it closely – or criticize its author.

Representations of the Orient in Western Music

Author : Nasser Al-Taee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351551410

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Representations of the Orient in Western Music by Nasser Al-Taee Pdf

This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western music. Dr Nasser Al-Taee traces several threads in a vast repertoire of musical representations, concentrating primarily on the images of violence and sensuality. Al-Taee argues that these prevailing traits are not only the residual manifestation of the Ottoman threat to Western Europe, but also the continuation of a long and complex history of fear and fascination towards the Orient and its Islamic religion. In addition to analyses of musical works, Al-Taee draws on travel accounts, paintings, biographies, and political events to engage with important issues such as gender, race, and religious differences that may have contributed to the variously complex images of the Orient in Western music. The study extends the range of Orientalism to cover eighteenth-century Austria, nineteenth-century Russia, and twentieth-century America. The book challenges those scholars who do not see Orientalism as problematic and tend to ignore the role of musical representations in shaping the image of the Other within a wider interdisciplinary study of knowledge and power.

Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead

Author : Yuji Matsumoto,Richard Sproat,Kam-Fai Wong,Min Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540496687

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Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead by Yuji Matsumoto,Richard Sproat,Kam-Fai Wong,Min Zhang Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2006, held in Singapore in December 2006, co-located with ISCSLP 2006, the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing. Coverage includes information retrieval, machine translation, word segmentation, abbreviation expansion, writing-system issues, semantics, and lexical resources.

The Representation of the Ottoman Orient in Eighteenth Century English Literature

Author : Hasan Baktir
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838261324

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The Representation of the Ottoman Orient in Eighteenth Century English Literature by Hasan Baktir Pdf

Inspired by the growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir examines the representation of the "Ottoman Orient" in 18th century English literature, taking a new perspective to achieve a comprehensive understanding and investigating different aspects of the interaction between the Ottoman Orient and 18th century Europe.A number of questions continue to arise in the wake of Said's 1978 landmark study, "Orientalism". How monodirectional was the flow of power in such representations? To what extent did the travelling observer also participate and become influenced by the phenomena he tried to depict without attachment? What variety of motivations lay behind the desire to know and represent the Oriental other -- was it simply a question of political control? Or were there deeper, more enigmatic factors at play -- sexuality, existential affirmation, even utter idiosyncrasy? How various and diverse was the Western response to the East -- can we discern degrees of sympathy, knowledge, and difference in the various Orients offered to us by the canonical and non-canonical figures of 18th century English letters? Baktir's study provides answers to many aspects of these questions, through a detailed examination of very different texts.Baktir does not completely reject Said's argument that European writers created a separate discourse to represent the Orient; rather, he shows us that there was also a dialogic and negotiating tendency which did not make a radical distinction between the East and the West. Relying his argument on 18th century pseudo-oriental letters, oriental tales, and oriental travelogues, Baktir demonstrates that the representation of the Ottoman Orient in 18th century English literature differs essentially from earlier centuries because a developing critical and liberal spirit established a negotiation between the two worlds. In this book, he indicates how the critical and inquisitive spirit of the age of Enlightenment interanimated Oriental and European cultures.

The Orient of Europe

Author : Nicholas Germana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443812085

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The Orient of Europe by Nicholas Germana Pdf

August Wilhelm Schlegel proclaimed that “[i]f the regeneration of the human species started in the East, Germany must be considered the Orient of Europe.” How can this remarkable identification of Germany with the subjugated oriental ‘other’ be explained? In The Orient of Europe, Nicholas A. Germana explores how German thinkers, especially those associated with the Early Romantic movement, set India up as an “ideal mirror,” in which they could perceive the image of the Germany they longed for – a nation whose greatness lay not in political and military power, but in the realm of culture and the spirit. Such an image was especially important during the years of French occupation and the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon. The ‘mythical image’ of India, however, underwent profound changes in the decades after 1815. The end of the Wars of Liberation and the onset of the Restoration era, led to the decline of the romantic image of India. As statist visions of German unity rose in prominence, especially in Prussia, this image of the connection between Germany and ancient India took on a new complexion. Politically volatile romantic “Indomania” gave way to a new, more acceptable, ideology – the ideology of Wissenschaft. In this book, which engages with the most recent scholarship in the rapidly emerging field of German Orientalism, Germana challenges traditional Saidian Orientalist readings of German intellectual engagement with Indian thought and literature. German romantic and humanist fascination with India, he argues, is best understood within the context of debates about the nature of ‘Germany’ and ‘Germanness’ in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, rather than in connection with nascent German “colonial fantasies.”

Post-Orientalism and Contemporary American Novels

Author : Mousa Abu Haserah
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527507104

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Post-Orientalism and Contemporary American Novels by Mousa Abu Haserah Pdf

This book provides a scientific and academic contribution to the scholarly exploration of the complex relationship between the East and the West in American literature. The study focuses on four novels (Mornings in Jenin, Falling Man, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Riyah Al-Janna (The Wind of Paradise)) to discuss how the literature reflects on Middle Eastern themes in relation to the situations and conditions of the New East. It treats the Orient as a moving body and takes Edward Said’s Orientalism into account, also showing Post-Orientalism or the New East as a literary phenomenon in the 21st century, specializing in politics, militarism, and post-colonial ideology. The book explains and divides the Middle East into two parts: the Arab-Islamic Middle East and the non-Arab-Islamic Middle East. It highlights the similarities and differences between these two parts as depicted in various novels, presenting the East as a land of desolation and destruction due to the political, regional, and religious changes that have shaken it.

Images of Women

Author : Sarah Graham-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Photography
ISBN : UCSC:32106010925896

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Orientalism Revisited

Author : Ian Richard Netton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136159848

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Orientalism Revisited by Ian Richard Netton Pdf

The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets out to survey, analyse and revisit the state of the Orientalist debate, both past and present. The leitmotiv of this book is its emphasis on an intimate connection between art, land and voyage. Orientalist art of all kinds frequently derives from a consideration of the land which is encountered on a voyage or pilgrimage, a relationship which, until now, has received little attention. Through adopting a thematic and prosopographical approach, and attempting to locate the fundamentals of the debate in the historical and cultural contexts in which they arose, this book brings together a diversity of opinions, analyses and arguments.

The Origins of National Interests

Author : Glenn R. Chafetz,Michael Spirtas,Benjamin Frankel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714649856

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The Origins of National Interests by Glenn R. Chafetz,Michael Spirtas,Benjamin Frankel Pdf

The concept of "identity" in international relations offers too many vague and imprecise definitions of the concepts that stand at its very core. This text offers clear definitions of the concept of identity and the concepts surrounding the term.