Edward Said remained a little-known scholar both in the West and Arab World until publication of his major work, Orientalism, 1978, which he argues that Western representations East have historically been distorted oversimplified these used to justify European imperialism domination. This proved turning point academic career, bringing him recognition and, somewhat later, World. The purpose this...

Saying a word out loud makes it more memorable than simply reading it silently. This robust finding has been labeled the production effect and has been attributed to the enhanced distinctiveness of produced relative to unproduced items (MacLeod et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 671-685, 2010). Produced items have the additional information that they...

Em Preço de noiva (2020), temos como pano fundo a trajetória Aku-nna sendo forçada se mudar da capital Nigéria para região rural. Portanto, o objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar deslocamento personagem coloca em constantes embates culturais, levando-a confrontar patriarcalismo tanto nas esferas tradicionais quanto coloniais. Sob revisão bibliográfica, quadro teórico formado por teóricos como: Ho...

This paper is an exploration into the phenomenon of Brexit, and how to approach it from perspective critical humanities. Following calls by Edward Said Lawrence Grossberg cross border between political science cultural studies, this takes Karen Barad’s agential realist rethinking responsibility as response-ability diffractively reads alongside performances practices well theory Hanna Pitkin Lis...

In his highly influential work Culture and Imperialism , Edward Said unravels the imperialist undertones in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park . Throughout chapter entitled “Jane Austen Empire,” demonstrates how this seemingly domestic novel of manners, not normally associated with imperialism, is actually densely saturated colonialist discourse. For Said, marginalized representation colonized territ...