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    CONCEPTUALIZING CULTURALHYBRIDITY‚ LANGUAGE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN POST COLONIAL LITERATURE: Hybridity‚ Culture and Language are the major issues in the post colonial theory. My assignment will deal with these three factors in terms of colonial perspectives. The post colonialism mainly explores the ideas such as cultural diversity‚ geographical dimensions‚ Diasporas‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ marginality‚ hybridity‚ national identities‚ cultural transformation‚ changes and politics in language etc….

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    Colonialism, Imperialism

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    In this sense‚ postcolonial literature may be considered a branch of postmodern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. Many practitioners take Edward Said’s book Orientalism (1978) to be the theory’s founding work; although French theorist Aimé Césaire made similar claims decades before Said.” Wikipedia states that Edward Said analyzed the works of postcolonial fictional writers exploring how they were both influenced

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    students‚ as the leading scholars of the Middle East have offered a lot of invaluable advice to studentsof the Middle Eastern history. In addition‚ the book sheds some light on Orientalism and on the lives of the leading orientalists of the postWorld War II era. The study is useful for students of history‚ historiography‚ orientalism

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    L’université McGill attache une haute importance à l’honnêteté académique. Il incombe par conséquent à tous les étudiants de comprendre ce que l’on entend par tricherie‚ plagiat et autres infractions académiques‚ ainsi que les conséquences que peuvent avoir de telles actions‚ selon le Code de conduite de l’étudiant et des procédures disciplinaires (pour de plus amples renseignements‚ veuillez consulter le site www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/)   McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore

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    Dash) plays a key role as a way to break the barrier of the rich and the poor. The media clearly wanted to make her character also rich so it would not seem as though they were pin pointing White American families. Referring back to the article Orientalism‚ Said mentioned that the occident were to be the dominant and the ones that observes other people while orients are to be the less fortunate in their eyes. In this movie particularly we can see that Dionne is stuck in the middle of the two barriers

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    CMNS 452 LECTURE NOTES

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    CMNS 452 LECTURE NOTES May 13- WEEK 1 TOPIC: Introduction to Race and Racism Approach For The Course ** How do we know what we know? (important… will ask during presentations and lecture term papers) exploration of media texts collaborative/ dialogical engage with case studies and examples understand and work with what we know MEDIA What is a media text? Moving beyond mainstream news‚ Hollywood movies and popular commercials Towards local productions‚ independent film… Media power in relation

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    enslavement Slaves as prized booty Piracy as Initiative ‘Shame’ in Spanish colonialism ‘Embarrassment’ to liberal values in American colonial period Postcolonial racial profiling and rise of Moro nationalism Moro media pirates Internal orientalism Moro pirates as fluid subject II. Philippine State Formation Dividi Middle class-ness New infrastructuring of experience Moro Identity Christian and state chauvinism Middle-class affect “feeling” Pa-feeling‚ feelingera‚ feeling rich‚ feeling

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    Feminism and Islam

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    Marks: 40 ASSIGNMENT No. 1 (Units: 1–5) Q.1 Islamic feminism is a thinking process only or it is a movement in Muslim societies for women rights? Q.2 Trace the origin of feminism in Egypt and discuss its major issues. Q.3 What is Orientalism? Why women’s situation is central in the discussions of the western orientalist writers? Q.4 How women’s role in Iranian revolution has influenced the women of the Muslim world. Q.5 How religious interpretations impact the lives of women?

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    about tourISM not romantic relationships. It should be addressing the MACRO; power‚ culture‚ history of the INDUSTRY that takes into account 1st-3rd world relations‚ sex versus love as a marketing tool and the imagination of the ’other’ as the ’orientalism’ the West imagines. Essay Pointers: You will be the ones creating knowledge now. Organize your essay in a similar fashion as the articles you have read this semester so that your paper flows in a logical way. 1) State what you are interested

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    jeez dude, really

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    “White Man’s Burden”/ “Civilizing mission” (notes) “Rescuing women” and postcolonialism (Abu-Lughod’s article) Australia’s “Stolen Generations” (from the film “Rabbit-Proof Fence” excerpt we saw in class) World System Theory (notes) Orientalism Nation (definition/s – notes) Definition of race (notes‚ AAA article) Socio-historical construction of race (notes‚ AAA article) Remittances When are remittances especially effective? Migration: Push and Pull Factors (notes)

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