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...

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...

Bu yazı Remzi Avcı’nın Kurgu ile Gerçeklik Arasında Alman Oryantalizmi başlıklı eserini tahlil etmektedir. Yazı boyunca eserin muhtevası özetle tanıtılmakta ve oryantalizminin aktörlerinden Carl Heinrich Becker (1876-1933) Martin Hartmann’ın (1851-1918) Osmanlı İmparatorluğunun son dönemine dair görüşleri analiz edilmektedir. Kitap Hartmann örneğinde siyasallaşmasını toplum siyasetini merkeze a...

The current study investigates how digital technologies can potentially be used to re-orientate the global narrative on Vietnam, overcome an imbalance in representation and help redress orientalism. Global allow Vietnamese cultural professionals reach beyond borders of their nation become part art world. With this,they participate production, dissemination, circulation discourses culture global...

the images of muslims in media, literature and politics have been mostly black and white portrayals of a people alien to modernity, technology, civilization and progress. since the end of the cold war and the onset of deadly terrorist attacks in different areas of the world, especially in the united states, these representations show a palpable difference: muslims are predominantly represented ...

james morier’s the adventures of hajji baba of ispahan is among works in which traces of the new wave of colonialism at the beginning of the 19th century are clearly evident, a colonialism which, fortified by the newly-established discourse of orientalism, employed literary texts as building blocks to expand and buttress authority and dominance of the west over the east. this paper attempts to ...