Sofia Tartakovskaya 9/19/2022 Long Summary of The Dark Side of the Nights by Robert Irwin Who would have thought the story Aladdin is based around would have such bad messages? The Dark Side of the Nights by Robert Irwin explains how the story of the Arabian Nights displays all the wonders of the world, like […]
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In Other Words… Haddawy’s Arabian Nights
By Sofia Tartakovskaya 09/11/22 1.“So has the drab fabric of life been transformed into the gossamer of romance, as these stories.” (Haddawy, page X) – With these stories, the dreadful reality of our life changes into anything we could ever imagine. -These stories are like out-of-reach dreams that life will never really have. -The romantic […]
My Thoughts on Rereading Sources Multiple Times
For class we had to read the Said article 3 times, which had both some benefits and disadvantages in my opinion. Because the article is so complex and there are a lot of different parts to it, I feel like I did catch some things I missed and understood the tone of the writing a […]
The Problematic Side to Aladdin
Sofia Tartakovskaya- 09/20/2022 It was hard to elaborate for the full 15 minutes based on what we thought was really good or well done, but the discussion group agreed that for the time that it was made, it was pretty good production value. This is a children’s story so it gave us all nostalgia, but […]
My Interpretation of The Arabian Nights Prologue
Sofia Tartakovskaya- 09/13/2022 I think this interpretation of the Arabian Nights is very engaging, there are many things that keep you drawn in but compared to modern books that everyone understands, this is definitely different. What was mostly hard to follow was all the different changes throughout the text with no character or story development […]
Free-Write on “The Scope of Orientalism” by Said
Throughout the article Said uses multiple people trying to explain how the Western world is above Egypt because of how they act and govern themselves. He explains how ‘knowledge is power’, and since the only European knowledge of The Orient is that the Arabs are dumb, dirty, cant follow directions, etc: England wants to take […]
Agrabah: Aladdin Creator’s Recreation of the Middle East
Sofia Tartakovskaya 10/16/22 “Aladdin” is a children’s movie that is well loved and promotes Arabian cultural representation, but whether its a good or bad representation is the question. The movie follows a poor Agrabah citizen, Aladdin, stealing food from a marketplace who meets a girl; princess Jasmine, who is having her own troubles revolving around […]
Why we think about “Reel Bad Arabs”
The movie gave a lot of insight to how Arabs are being treated in the world and how the stereotypes in filmography are contributing to that. The movie explains how Arabs are either portrayed as buffoons only there to provide entertainment or cruel terrorists with no humanity. This draws a direct parallel to how we […]
Agrabah: Aladdin Creator’s Recreation of the Middle East- Draft
10/05/2022 Aladdin might be a kids movie, but have you ever thought about the connotations of it about the orient and people there? This portrayal of the middle east is an unfair and demeaning collection of stereotypes that displays a precedent about The Orient. When watching the movie as a child, you tend to overlook […]
Me as a Writer
Personally, I like math or science more than writing because those subjects actually have an objective answer. Though I may be creative in some ways because I like to do lighting design for theatre, writing is just not the same. I know not everyone is the same but it is just hard to think of […]
