Gratifying the “Self” by Demonizing the “Other”

A Call for Dialogue Not Monologues

Bibliographic Data

ID16914549
AuthorsMustafa Hashim Taha (American University of Sharjah, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume4
Issue2
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2158244014533707
OpenAlexW2117061037
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited59

This qualitative study examines the U.S. media portrayals of African, Arab, and Islamic countries and sheds light on the response to these portrayals by a number of international students (Africans, Arabs, and Asians) in a middle-sized public university in the United States. The study uses Foucault’s power–knowledge constructs, Bhabha’s cultural difference, Bakhtin’s heteroglossia, and Said’s Orientalism as well the framing theory as a conceptual framework. It concludes that negative U.S. media portrayals of Africans, Arabs, and Asians were based on an Orientalist discourse and elicited negative reaction from the African, Arab, and Asian respondents

Art · Heteroglossia · Islam · Islamophobia · Literature · Media studies · Orientalism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Media Studies and Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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