%0 Book
%A Omar Moumni
%D 2014
%C München, Germany
%I GRIN Verlag
%@ 9783656625032
%T Imperial Eyes: Rhetorics of Empire Building in the Movie Robinson Crusoe
%U https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/270826
%X In this paper I analyze the movie Robinson Crusoe to understand the rhetoric of empire building and to stand at instances of appropriation that push the west to cherish superiority over the “other”. I focus on the discursive strategies used by the west to inferiorize the other race and to reduce them to cruel creatures. I start by dwelling on the representation of the “other” and the landscape and I focus on the production of knowledge as a tool used to inferiroize them. At the end I stop at some paradoxes within the colonial discourse that create ruptures in the western empire. I do that by questing signs of resistance that break the discourse of empire building and that reveal the ambivalent nature of the colonial discourse.  Keywords: Robinson Crusoe - Colonial Discourse - Empire Building – Orientalism - Film Studies
%K Robinson Crusoe, Imperial Eyes, Empire Building, Postcolonial literature
%G English