Virtual Orientalism

Author : Jane Iwamura
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199792856
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Orientalism written by Jane Iwamura and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saffron-robed monks and long-haired gurus have become familiar characters on the American popular culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. Encounters with monks, gurus, bhikkhus, sages, sifus, healers, and masters from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and religious traditions provided initial engagements with Asian spiritual traditions. Virtual Orientalism shows the evolution of these interactions, from direct engagements with specific individuals to mediated relations with a conventionalized icon: the Oriental Monk. Visually and psychically compelling, the Oriental Monk becomes for Americans a ''figure of translation''--a convenient symbol for alternative spiritualities and modes of being. Through the figure of the solitary Monk, who generously and purposefully shares his wisdom with the West, Asian religiosity is made manageable-psychologically, socially, and politically--for popular culture consumption. Iwamura's insightful study shows that though popular engagement with Asian religions in the United States has increased, the fact that much of this has taken virtual form makes stereotypical constructions of "the spiritual East" obdurate and especially difficult to challenge.

Author : Jane Naomi Iwamura
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199738602
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Orientalism written by Jane Naomi Iwamura and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Iwamura examines contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. At the heart of her study is the Oriental Monk, a non-sexual, solitary, conventionalized icon who generously and purposefully shares his wisdom with the West.

Author : E. King
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137462191
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture written by E. King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804153868
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orientalism written by Edward W. Said and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Author : Tombul, I??l
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799871827
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond written by Tombul, I??l and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientalism is about much more than just information gathered about the East within its general postcolonial period. In this period, orientalism is a Western discourse that dominated and shaped the view of the East. There is “otherization” in the way the West has historically looked at the East and within the information presented about it. These original stories of travelers in the past and previous telling about the East are facing a reconstruction through modern types of media. Cinema, television, news, newspaper, magazine, internet, social media, photography, literature, and more are transforming the way the East is presented and viewed. Under the headings of post-orientalism, neo-orientalism, or self-orientalism, these new orientalist forms of work in combination with both new and traditional media are redefining orientalism in the media and beyond. The Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond shows how both new media and traditional media deal with orientalism today through the presentation of gender, race, religion, and culture that make up orientalist theory. The chapters focus on how orientalism is presented in the media, cinema, TV, photography, and more. This book is ideal for communications theorists, media analysts, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students working in fields that include mass media, communications, film studies, ethnic studies, history, sociology, and cultural studies.

Author : E. King
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137462191
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture written by E. King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations.

Author : Ivan Davidson Kalmar
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654117
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orientalism and the Jews written by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating analysis of how Jews fit into scholarly debates about Orientalism.

Author : Gregory Price Grieve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317293258
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyber Zen written by Gregory Price Grieve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? If authentic practices must mimic the actual world, then Second Life Buddhism does not. In fact, a critical investigation reveals that online Buddhist practices have at best only a family resemblance to canonical Asian traditions and owe much of their methods to the late twentieth-century field of cybernetics. If, however, they are judged existentially, by how they enable users to respond to the suffering generated by living in a highly mediated consumer society, then Second Life Buddhism consists of authentic spiritual practices. Cyber Zen explores how Second Life Buddhist enthusiasts form communities, identities, locations, and practices that are both products of and authentic responses to contemporary Network Consumer Society. Gregory Price Grieve illustrates that to some extent all religion has always been virtual and gives a glimpse of possible future alternative forms of religion.

Author : Chris Goto-Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783489839
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virtual Ninja Manifesto written by Chris Goto-Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the traditions of the martial arts to ask whether playing violent videogames actually transform gamers into better people.

Author : Maryam Wasif Khan
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 082329014X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Is a Muslim? written by Maryam Wasif Khan and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.