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Glossary 5
Enlish Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Contrast or opposition between two things. | ANTITHESIS |
| The direct opposite. | ANTITHESIS |
| The direct political control of one country or society by another and refers first of all to historical episodes, like the long history of British rule in India. | COLONIALISM |
| Someone who takes part in a dispute or challenge. | CONTESTANT |
| “Historically, the Orient has challenged or rivaled the West in cultural terms” (E.Said). | CULTURAL CONTESTANT |
| An instance of language or utterance that involves the speaker/writer-subject and listener/reader-object. Foucault argued that discourse colludes with power. | DISCOURSE |
| To confirm, to declare support or approval of. | ENDORSE |
| A critical approach to literature which challenges the universality of white discourse and standards. | ETHNIC STUDIES |
| A person or thing that enhances the qualities of another by contrast | FOIL |
| Represents one of the West´s most deep-rooted and persistent images of the Other | IMAGINARY ORIENT |
| Is a form of discourse supported by institutions, language, academic study, principles, bureaucracy and a certain way of doing things (style). | MATERIAL ORIENT |
| An academic meaning through its doctrines and theses about the Orient and the Oriental (E. Said). | ORIENTALISM |
| The corporate institution or Western Style for controlling and shaping the Orient (Said). | ORIENTALISM |
| The distinction between the Orient and the Occident, East and West (E. Said). | ORIENTALISM |
| The ensemble of western, usually though not exclusively European discourses and other forms of representation of non-western cultures (E. Said). | ORIENTALISM |
| Term that names the quality or state of existence of being other or different from established norms and social groups. | OTHER/OTHERNESS |
| The distinction that one makes between one’s self and others, particularly in terms of sexual, ethnic and relational senses of difference. | OTHER/OTHERNESS |
| Centers on the conflicts and contradictions, as well as the advantages and sense of liberation, that accompany life as an individual in a postcolonial state. | POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE |
| A critical practice which stresses and examines cultural difference and diversity in literature. | POST-COLONIALISM |
| A critical practice that refutes the claim that mainstream Western literature is somehow universal and stress its limited perspective and blindness to cultural and ethnic specifities. | POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM |
| A critical practice that examines the representation of other cultures in literature as a way of achieving this end. | POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM |
| A critical practice that looks therefore at how other cultures are represented in literature. | POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM |
| (n.) Substitute. | SURROGATE |
| Overcome, defeat. | TO GET THE BETTER OF |
| (adj. from v. to vaunt) To boast, to brag (synonyms: boastful, swaggering). | VAUNTED |
| The desire and need of the West to use the African continent to emphasize its own state of grace. | WESTERN DESIRE AND NEED |
| The desire in Western psychology to set Africa up as a foil to Europe. | WESTERN DESIRE AND NEED |
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