This article is a response to calls for more reflexivity in media scholarship. It argues that despite various attempts towards challenging the ‘Western-centrism’ of field (notable among them ‘de-Westernisation’ project), studies has remained highly captive distinctions between ‘West’ and ‘non-West’ as principal starting point analysis. Building on Edward Said’s concept Orientalism, employing id...

This paper first improves Chen and Hsieh’s definition of generalized fuzzy numbers, which makes it the generalization of definition of fuzzy numbers. Secondly, in terms of the generalized fuzzy numbers set, we introduce two different kinds of orders and arithmetic operations and metrics based on the λ-cutting sets or generalized λ-cutting sets, so that the generalized fuzzy numbers are integrat...

The objective of this study is to draw upon the Orients’ skewed representation perpetuated and disseminated by Khaled Hosseini in his Anglophone fiction Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns under framework Re-orientalism. Re-orientalism extends itself as a concept where Oriental author propagates literature mystifying East barbaric uncivilized turn validating hypothesis suppress rule Orient. Th...