Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisors: S. Craig Watkins and John D.H. Downing. Vita. Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

La période de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle est celle d’une expansion territoriale de l’Europe dans le monde. Cette expansion a cherché à se légitimer par le biais d’un discours qui se voulait humaniste : l’homme blanc, fort de sa supériorité raciale et culturelle, se devait d’aider les autres populations à atteindre un stade avancé de développement.Les historiens français et britanniques ayant travaillé sur l’Égypte lagide y ont, eux aussi, été sensibles. Les hellénistes ont amalgamé l’hellénisme à la culture européenne contemporaine, faisant de l’Égypte hellénistique un modèle. Ce dernier laissait un héritage que seuls les empires européens étaient capables de recueillir. De leur côté, les égyptologues, sensibles aux canons du Nouvel Empire, centrés sur la culture égyptienne, tout en acceptant l’idée du colonialisme civilisateur des barbares, considéraient la présence grecque en Égypte comme un corps étranger déstructurant une société déjà en déclin.Cette présente étude se propose d’analyser la réception de l’Égypte hellénistique à la lueur des paradigmes coloniaux, à travers les écrits de six savants : Pierre Jouguet (1869-1949), Auguste Bouché-Leclercq (1842-1923), Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919), Harold Idris Bell (1879-1967) et William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942). / The period from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is that of a territorial expansion of Europe in the world. This expansion has sought to legitimize itself through a speech that was meant humanistic: the white man, with his racial and cultural superiority, had to help other people reach an advanced stage of development. The French and British historians who have worked on Ptolemaic Egypt have also been affected by it. The Hellenists amalgamated Hellenism to contemporary European culture, making a model of Hellenistic Egypt. This left a legacy that only the European empires were able to collect. For their part, Egyptologists, sensitive to the canons of the New Kingdom, centered on Egyptian culture, while accepting the idea of civilizing colonialism barbarians, saw the Greek presence in Egypt as a foreign body destabilizing a society already in decline. This study aims to analyze the reception of Hellenistic Egypt in light of colonial paradigms, through the writings of six scientists: Pierre Jouguet (1869-1949), Auguste Bouché-Leclercq (1842-1923), Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919), Harold Idris Bell (1879-1967) and Flinders Petrie (1853-1942).

This study explores the life of the prominent Russian Orientalist and colonial administrator Aleksandr Semenov (1873-1958). In the course of his long and versatile career in Central Asia - where he came to in 1901 as a low-ranking member of Turkestan's colonial administration, and where he died in 1958 as the first director of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of Tajikistan's Academy of Sciences - Semenov participated in the transformation of the region from a Tsarist colony into part of what Francine Hirsch has called an 'Empire of Nations'. His influence on national historiography and notions of national identity was especially marked in the case of the Soviet Union's only Persian-speaking republic, Tajikistan, with which Semenov was connected through his interest and expertise in Persianate Central Asia. This thesis even goes so far as to argue that Semenov's scholarship and his work as an advisor to the Soviet government facilitated the very establishment of Tajikistan, which Paul Bergne has described as a nation initially promoted by Russian Orientalists. Further research in Russian archives is required, however, to better substantiate this claim. Rather than focussing on the (early) Soviet period and on so-called national territorial delimitation of Central Asia, as scholars such as Hirsch and Arne Haugen have done, the present study, in the vein of scholars like Vera Tolz and Vladimir Genis, highlights the ways in which both Bolshevik nationalities policy and Soviet Oriental Studies grew out of the studying and ruling of Central Asia in the late imperial period. It does so through an examination of Semenov's career, scholarship and personal networks, and on the basis of his personal archive in Tajikistan's Academy of Sciences, which has not been researched in any systematic way since the early 1970s, and in which no scholar from outside the former Soviet Union has ever worked.

L’artiste débute sa carrière au moment où le développement considérable de la critique en France s’explique par plusieurs facteurs : la centralisation parisienne de la vie artistique et littéraire, le prestige inhérent aux Salons de la capitale, et surtout la publication au début du siècle des Salons de Diderot, qui jusque-là n’ayant pas dépassé le cercle privé de l’auteur se retrouvèrent érigés en modèle d’un nouveau genre littéraire. Car il n’y a pas, et ce durant les quarante années de carrière de Delacroix, de critique professionnelle. C’est pourquoi celle-ci regroupe sous ce seul terme une multitude d’auteurs, une abondance de textes et de mediums. Un corpus considérable d’articles nous renseigne sur ce que fut la réception de Delacroix du début à la fin de sa carrière jusqu’à la fin du siècle, et nous montre comment l’esthétique de l’artiste put être appréhendée. La longévité de la carrière de Delacroix est l’un des intérêts majeurs d’une telle recherche, tant elle s’accompagne de bouleversements politiques, sociologiques, idéologiques et esthétiques. La critique qui découvre pour la première fois le jeune artiste en 1822 n’est plus celle qu’il quitte en 1859, tout comme celle de 1885 qui voit approcher l’aune d’un nouveau siècle. L’intérêt de ce travail sera non seulement de tenter de réunir l’intégralité des textes produits par la critique de 1822 à 1885, mais aussi et surtout de mettre en lumière -par l’analyse des textes et de leur contexte- les processus qui permirent à la critique non seulement d’évoluer vers la nouvelle discipline de l’histoire de l’art, mais aussi d’ériger un artiste en l’un des plus fameux symboles du XIXème siècle. / The artist began his career at the same time as the development of critics/criticism in France - this is explained by several factors: centralization of Parisian artistic and literary life, the inherent prestige of ‘Salons’ in the capital, and especially the publication at the beginning of the century of the ‘Salons of Diderot’, which were started as a model of a new literary genre, and which had not yet exceeded the private author's circle. Also, during the forty years of Delacroix’s career there had been no professional criticism. This is why this single term regroups a multitude of authors, an abundance of texts and media. There are a considerable number of articles provide information on the response to Delacroix from the beginning to the end his career until the end of the century, and inform us how the artist’s works were accepted and interpreted. The length of Delacroix’s career is one of the major interests of any research, as it was accompanied by political, sociological, ideological and artistic upheavals. The criticism that the young artist discovers for the first time in 1822 is very different to that in 1859, and again in 1885, at the approach of a new century. The interest of this work will not only attempt to bring together all of the critical texts produced between 1822 to 1885, but also to highlight - by analysis of the texts and their context - process which enabled them to move towards a new discipline of the History of Art, but also to create an artist who is one most famous symbols of the 19th century.

Entre les dernières décennies du XXe siècle et les années 1960 naît et se développe en Égypte une importante production littéraire de femmes : des Égyptiennes éduquées en français (comme Out-el-Kouloub et Doria Shafik) choisissent cette langue pour dire les aspirations de la « femme nouvelle », qui quitte alors l'espace privé et confiné du harem pour investir l'espace public et porter haut et fort, malgré les réticences séculaires et les résistances des milieux conservateurs, des revendications sociales (féminisme, nationalisme) et culturelles. Des Françaises comme Jehan d'Ivray ou Valentine de Saint-Point s'installent à cette même période en Égypte, et deviennent les témoins et les actrices de cette Renaissance culturelle. Ces auteures investissent divers genres littéraires comme le roman et la poésie mais aussi l'essai ou l'écrit de recherche universitaire, elles publient dans des périodiques, ou créent des revues pour se dire. Elles mettent ainsi à l'épreuve les catégories opposant genres dits féminins et genres dits masculins. Elles contribuent à élaborer une œuvre interculturelle prenant en compte les traditions génériques françaises et égyptiennes, et proposent un renouvellement de la représentation de la femme et de l'Orient. Les écrits littéraires de femmes rassemblent une production très vaste mais qui demeure pourtant peu connue, peu rééditée et peu lue de nos jours, alors même qu'elle jouissait parfois d'une véritable reconnaissance des lecteurs et des institutions littéraires à l'époque de leur parution. Notre travail a consisté à constituer un corpus, c'est-à-dire à l'identifier, à le rassembler, à le classer avant de l'analyser. Il s'agit d'écrire un chapitre oublié de l'histoire littéraire et de s'interroger sur le statut de la littérature des femmes et de la littérature francophone dans la tradition critique. / An important literary production emerged and developed in Egypt from the end of the 19th century until the 1960's: Egyptian women educated in French culture (like Out-el-Kouloub or Doria Shafik) chose this language to write the ambitions of the “new woman”, who was abandoning the private and confined space of the harem and investing public space to loudly proclaim cultural and social demands (feminism, nationalism), despite secular reluctance and resistance from conservatives. At the same time, French women such as Jehan d'Ivray or Valentine Saint-Point, settled to live in Egypt, and became witnesses and actors of this cultural renaissance. These authors adopted various literary genres such as the novel and poetry but also the essay or academic writing, publishing in periodicals or founding magazines in order to express themselves. They question the contradiction between so-called women's and men's literary genres, while contributing to the creation of intercultural literature which encompasses both French and Egyptian traditions. At the same time, they propose a reassessment of the representations of women and the East. This women's literature forms a large production which nevertheless remains relatively unknown as it is rarely republished or read today, even though it often received considerable attention from both readers and literary institutions at the time of publication. This thesis builds a corpus, identifying, collecting and classifying the works before analyzing them. It aims at writing a forgotten chapter of literary history while examining the status of women's literature and francophone literature in the critical tradition.

This study examined four different settings in Selma Lagerlof’s novel Jerusalem, part I and II. The aim of the study was to analyse the narrative perspective in the four selected scenes of the novel, and also to investigate whether the narrator’s tone in any of the passages could be said to express orientalism. The material consisted of four text passages describing the novel’s two main geographical locations (the district of Dalarna and the Holy Land). Literary theories used for the study were narratology and postcolonial theory. The applied method to analyse the passages was to use the selection of semantic and syntactic markers compiled by Staffan Hellberg (1985) for stylistic analysis of the narrator’s perspective in Swedish narrative texts. The results of the study show that the overall narrative perspective in the scenes are non-focalized, and that the most frequently featured stylistic markers consist of words and phrases expressing value. A summery of the most frequently used stylistic markers show that it is possible to divide the narrative tone into four categories, as the “presenting”, “sympathizing”, “demonstrating” and “educating” narrator. The results also indicate that orientalism is evident in the two analysed passages from Jerusalem, part II.

O presente trabalho analisa os sentidos produzidos pela narrativa jornalística das quatro maiores revistas semanais de informação brasileiras –Veja, Época, IstoÉ e Carta Capital – sobre Oriente, Islã, árabes e muçulmanos. Investiga a forma como o jornalismo de revista é atravessado por dizeres preexistentes, externos ao texto, a respeito do assim chamado Oriente. Tomando a Análise de Discurso de extração francesa(AD) como dispositivo analítico, estuda se e de que forma as revistas semanais de informação produzem e põem em circulação uma mirada orientalista sobre eventos e personagens, conforme noção cunhada por Edward Said (1990) para designar o discurso que articula saberes relacionados ao Oriente produzidos e organizados no Ocidente por distintas instâncias de poder (colonial e imperial, cultural, político, simbólico). / The present work analyses meanings produced by journalistic narratives of the four main weekly information magazines in Brazil – Veja, Época, IstoÉ e Carta Capital – related to East, Islam, Arabs and muslims. It investigates the form in which magazine news is crossed by pre-existent sayings, external to the text, on the subject of the so-called East. Taking Discourse Analysis of French extraction (AD) as analytic tool, it researches if and how the weekly information magazines product and puts in circulation an orientalist outlook on events and characters, taking the notion developed by Edward Said (1990) to define the discourse that articulate knowledges related to East which are produced and organized in the West by various instances of power (colonial and imperial, cultural, political, symbolic). / El presente trabajo analisa los sentidos producidos por la narrativa periodistica de las cuatro más grandes revistas semanales de información brasileñas –Veja, Época, IstoÉ e Carta Capital – sobre Oriente, Islan, árabes y musulmanes. Investiga la forma como el periodismo de revista es cruzado por decires preexistentes, exteriores al texto, sobre el llamado Oriente. Tomando la Análisis de Discurso de extracción francesa (AD) como dispositivo analítico, estudia si y de que forma las revistas semanales de información producen y ponen em circulación una mirada orientalista sobre eventos y personajes, conforme noción desarrollada por Edward Said (1990) para designar el discurso que articula saberes referentes al Oriente producidos y organizados en el Ocidente por distintas instancias de poder (colonial y imperial, cultural, político, simbolico).

Using a qualitative content analysis, the thesis "Framing of Islam in the Czech News" examines the framing of Islam and Muslims in the Czech daily newspapers Mladá fronta DNES and Právo before and after the terrorist attacks in Paris (7-8 January 2015). Its theoretical framework views Islam both from the perspective of Czech society and the Czech media, the study of the latter aspect drawing on Czech as well as foreign theoretical works and research focused on Islam in the media. The thesis also considers the concept of media framing. The qualitative analysis aims to identify a set of frames specific to the media construction of Islam and Muslims. The extent to which framing is influenced by location (Islam and Muslims in the Czech Republic and abroad) and the Paris events (the development of framing over time - before and after the attacks) is also explored. Finally, the research looks at the role played in writings on the subject by stereotypes, orientalism, new racism (namely islamophobia) and van Dijk's ideological square.

Globalization has significantly reshaped communication trends that influence nation branding practices. Many studies examine the development of a nation and destination branding; however, little has been done to examining the planning processes and the selection of representative messages that nations choose to communicate through their individual brands. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify the key concepts that are used to build Brand Singapore. Singapore is a small, diverse country that attracts attention both as a tourism destination and political and economic entity. Hence, the study examines its branding materials and messages chosen in order to stand out from the competition, as well as the rationale behind these choices. For those purposes, the process of multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) was used on text and visual based messages present in the “Singapore – Where Passion is Made Possible” nation branding video of Singapore. In order to break down and identify the core messages that Brand Singapore communicates, results were subjected to contexts of safety and diversity in Singapore along with theories of re-orientalism and competitive identity. The examination revealed that Singapore is persistently showcasing itself as a multi-ethnical country, but it is rather understanding and tolerant. The presence of the social and economic hierarchy is present, and the Chinese ethnicity is granted the highest status in the messages. Communication practitioners and marketing organizations will find this study helpful in developing branding strategy planning for the most demanding countries.

Uppsatsen ämnar till att analysera fotografier tagna av fotografen Wilhelm von Gloeden mellan åren 1890—1910. Genom att undersöka fotografierna utifrån aspekter om iscensättning och performativitet leds syftet vidare till en analys och diskussion som berör homoerotik, klass, genus, sexualitet och orientalism. Tillvägagångssättet för analysen utgår från Anne D’Allevas formalanalys som är utformad efter tvådimensionella verk. Analysen stöds av Judith Butlers idéer om vad en performativ akt symboliserar ur ett queerperspektiv. Analysen kring fotografierna i förhållande till orientalism och hur Västeuropeiska konstnärer har konstruerat en bild av Sydeuropeiska samhällen grundas på texter av Edward W. Said och Linda Nochlin. Uppsatsen är uppdelad i två kapitel. Det första kapitlet berör främst den antika iscensättningen i von Gloedens fotografier med ett fokus på sociala relationer. Det andra kapitlet berör en kategorisering av von Gloedens fotografier samt på vilket sätt det går att analysera fotografierna utifrån perspektiv som pornografi, konst och kön. Frågeställningarna bygger på vad som går att utläsa genom att undersöka iscensättningen i fotografierna och om en problematik går att utläsa utifrån fotografiernas motiv. Resultatet påvisar olika ingångsätt till en analys av von Gloedens fotografier och vad som går att utläsa både allmänt och personligt genom att studera iscensättning och performativitet utifrån ett queerperspektiv. Nyckelord: Wilhelm von Gloeden, fotokonst, bildanalys, homoerotik, iscensättning, performativitet, genus, sexualitet, klass, sociala relationer, orientalism, Taormina