How Long to Read Ruptures in the Western Empire

How Long Does it Take to Read Ruptures in the Western Empire?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 30 minutes to read Ruptures in the Western Empire by Omar Moumni

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

First encounters between the east and the west in the Mediterranean are important instances in history. They are the source of constructing a myth and history that has depended much on literary and cultural productions. This book investigates this history by dwelling on issues of white female captives in Moorish Thralldom and their representation in western cinema to realize the way the stories of those Christian female captives have been used and abused by their nations to achieve imperialist ambitions. This book dwells on the ambivalent attitudes of those female captives towards their empires and problematizes the “strength” and “unity” of the colonial discourse. Cinema of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries reflects the paradigm that western directors and producers followed. It is the construction of visual narratives they inherited from orientalism, as well as the creation of visual tropes that are often created through polarities of good and bad, and through the process of intertexuality. Western cinema encapsulates the “other” in the stereotypical framework of cinematic production. It fixes the “other” with its misrepresentation and, with the repetition of those stereotypes, it contributes to widening the gap between the two entities – the west as opposed to the east. This book analyzes all those visual texts: movies as a battleground for opposing ideologies; as a space where we are pushed far away from the precinct of literature into the arena of politics and ideology; an arena where political, ideological and cultural struggles are enmeshed to vanquish the weak “other”. Omar Moumni reads all those western cinematic productions as colonial texts. He reads them from the perspective and the position of the Moorish “other” whose voice has been drawn to represent a history. By rereading this visual culture, he deconstructs the stereotypes, the tropes and the constructed reality about the “other”, and gives the “other” his due and his voice, uttered in the other’s disruptive resistance.

How long is Ruptures in the Western Empire?

Ruptures in the Western Empire by Omar Moumni is 150 pages long, and a total of 37,500 words.

This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ruptures in the Western Empire Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to read Ruptures in the Western Empire aloud.

What Reading Level is Ruptures in the Western Empire?

Ruptures in the Western Empire is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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