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Orientalism: Chapter 1(Pages 43-46)| Edward Said| Postcolonialism

This episode  includes another  lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers pages 43- to 46 of the book.  If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.  The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:  Edward Said. "Orientalism." https://amzn.to/3fZqWLKEdward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic."https://amzn.to/38sFDEnRaymond Williams: "The Long Revolution." https://amzn.to/2YZINMVNoam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays." https://amzn.to/3iuClFy Full text of Balfour's Speech: https://api.parliament.uk/historic-ha...

Reading Orientalism: Chapter 1(Pages 40-43)| Edward Said| Postcolonialism| Postcolonial Theory  

This episode  includes my  third lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers pages 40 to 43 of the book.  

If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.  The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:  Edward Said. "Orientalism." https://amzn.to/3fZqWLKEdward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic."https://amzn.to/38sFDEnRaymond Williams: "The Long Revolution." https://amzn.to/2YZINMVNoam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays." https://amzn.to/3iuClFy

Episode 10 (Season 2) Orientalism, Chapter 1 (Pages 36-40)| Edward Said 

This episode  includes my  first lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers from pages 36 to 40  of the book.    If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.   The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:   Edward Said. "Orientalism."  Edward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic." Raymond Williams: "The Long Revolution."  Noam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays."  Full text of Balfour's Speech

Episode 9 (Season 2) Orientalism, Chapter 1 (Pages 35-36)| Edward Said

This episode  includes my  first lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers from pages 35 to 35 of the book.   

If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.  

The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:   Edward Said. "Orientalism."  Edward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic." Raymond Williams: "The Long Revolution."  Noam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays."  Full text of Balfour's Speech

This episode  includes my  first lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers from pages 30 to 34 of the book.  

If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.  The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:  

Edward Said. "Orientalism." 

Edward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic."

Raymond Williams: "The Long Revolution." 

Noam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays." 

Full text of Balfour's Speech

adapted from my Youtube channel, this is the final episode that discusses the introduction to Edward said's "Orientalism."

Adapted from my Youtube channel, this is another episode in my series on Edward said's Orientalism. In this episode I discuss part three of Said's Introdcution.

What is Allochronic Discourse? | Postcolonialism | Johannes Fabian Allochronic discourse is a term coined and elaborated by Johannes Fabian, allochronism and originally referred to the practices in the field of anthropology, though it can be expanded very easily to apply to other cultural studies fields. Fabian first points out that a major flaw in Western  anthropological studies is a “denial of coevalness,” which he terms allochrinism, under which not only the European studying subject observes his or her study objects,  non-European others,  in a different colonized space but that in this act of observation while both the ethnographer and his or her object exist in the same time, the ethnographer renders the object of study as if existing in another, past, time, thus stabilizing the present of Europe as the real time and plotting the objects of study in a past time. This happens even though the two participants in this exchange exist in the same serial time. This, thus, ends up offering the colonial cultures as ossified, static, and “primitive.”  

(Source: Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory) https://amzn.to/363gOMU

Decolonizing Literary Theory: Some Tentative Thoughts | Zahiriyya and Bataniyya Philosophy In this brief video I discuss a few tentative strategies of decolonizing western literary theory and infusing it with knowledges produces in the rest of the world.  

Edward Said. "Orientalism." https://amzn.to/3fZqWLK

Edward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic."https://amzn.to/38sFDEn

Raymond Williams: "The Long Revolution." https://amzn.to/2YZINMV

Noam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays." https://amzn.to/3iuClFy

How to Learn Literary Theory 

Relying on my own experience of teaching literary theory, this lecture provides brief guidelines about the basics of learning literary theory and its use.