Orientalism

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• The ‘Meaning’ of Minarets

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 476
  Arab News runs an interesting piece on minarets, written by an assistant professor at Rutgers University, in New Jersey. The article delves into the history of the minaret—the earliest mosques lacked them—and suggests that they developed as a counterpoint to Christian bell towers. The writer, Tarek Kahlaoui, ...
  1 week ago

• Contextualizing Rappaccini’s Daughter in the Contemporary Race Debate

  
  epiphanies — Authority: 118
  Beyond Allegory As Frederick Crews notes, the excess and fairytale logic of Rappaccinis Daughter calls “for some nonliteral rationale” beyond the literal plot, and the narrator’s claims that the tale makes “little or no reference either to time or space” has resulted in dozens of metaphysical ...
  2 weeks ago

• Native Orientalists at the Daily Times

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 549
  M. Shahid Alam“The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the foremost minds of the ruled class, the more stable and dangerous becomes its rule.” Karl MarxA few days back, I received a ‘Dear friends’ email from Mr. Najam Sethi, ex editor-in-chief of Daily Times, Pakistan, announcing that he, together with ...
  2 weeks ago

• The danger of a single story

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 549
  Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.About Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieInspired by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Christie’s Orientalist Sale

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 492
  Christie’s was looking to make £8m from their very compact sale of 24 Orientalist works in London yesterday. With 71% of the lots–or 17 out of 24–selling for £10.57m , they ended up doing quite well. One reason was this John Frederick Lewis watercolor called The Arab scribe, Cairo which had a £700k high ...
  3 weeks ago

• TV Portrayal of Chinatown is Downright Criminal

  
  Hyphen Blog — Authority: 468
  Oh boy. Heres an original idea -- according to this trailer, detective show Cold Case is featuring crime in Chinatown in tomorrows episode. From what I gather from the trailer, the plot will be rife with Asian gangsters and lots of Chinese people doing some sort of mysterious, ancient rituals.  Wait, wait, Ive ...
  4 weeks ago

• Whoa.

  
  Resist racism — Authority: 547
  Short summary:  Christian publisher Zondervan released a book full of Asian stereotypes.  You know, the “Asian font,” the ninjas, the bamboo, Japanese gardens, kimono, random Chinese characters, etc.  Plus the website promoting the book used an old martial arts movie in which the speech was dubbed in the white ...
  4 weeks ago

• Unemployed? You fail at being Canadian.

  
  Restructure! — Authority: 106
  Are you currently unemployed? According to the new Canadian citizenship guidebook for prospective immigrants, over 8.6% of unemployed Canadians are not fulfilling the Canadian responsibility of having a job , which now comes with the rights of having a Canadian citizenship. The new Canadian citizenship guidebook ...
  4 weeks ago

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