The so-called “oriental” has always been a subject for “western” fascination. Today, the staging of “orient” in (hobby) model photography is among most popular themes: costumes and props from various cultural contexts are combined to form new whole. Based on participant observation interviews, article traces back possible individual motivations embodying “oriental,” them nostalgia, correspondin...

several novels have appeared after the september 11 attacks whichdeal directly or indirectly with the effect of the event on individuals, both insideand outside of the united states. though, the novels often claim to deal withthe post- traumatic aftermath of the incident, the writers regularly use orientaliststereotyping and it seems that after 9/11 this attitude toward muslims has hardenedand ...

Re-orientalization of the modern orient has become a new phenomenon in South Asian Literature. This research tended to analyze re-oriental tendencies Shamsie’s critically acclaimed novels Burnt Shadows and Home Fire. Lau’s (2009) framework Re-Orientalism was selected for analysis along with basic concepts Said’s (1979) Orientalism. Within this framework, researcher ten random samples from both ...

This paper specifically discusses the cultural attitudes that made writing fully realized Muslim characters problematic for Western authors during the 19th and 20th centuries and also how, through their writing, certain authors perpetuated these attitudes. The discussed authors and works include William Beckford's Vathek, Lord Byron's poem “The Giaour,” multiple short stories from the periodica...

In its hermeneutically rich reconstructions of “Axial Age” breakthroughs in the world’sgreat religions, RHE provides an all-important historical explanation for the autonomy of cul-ture vis-à-vis social structure in the present day. Powerfully documenting “Eastern” as well as“Western” Axial breakthroughs, RHE goes beyond the Orientalism that distorted Weber’s ownhistorical and c...