Political and Cultural Perceptions of George Orwell

This article deals with the identity construction of Latin American immigrants in Israel through their food practices. Food is a basic symbolic element connecting cultural perceptions and experiences. For immigrants, food is also an important element in the maintenance of personal ties with their home countries and a cohesive factor in the construction of a new identity in Israel, their adopted homeland. Food practices encode tacit information and non-verbal cues that are integral parts of an individual’s relationship with different social groups. In this case, I recruited participants from an online group formed within social media platforms of Latin American women living in Israel. The basic assumption of this study posits that certain communication systems are set in motion around food events in various social contexts pertaining to different national or local cuisines and culinary customs. Their meaning, significance and modifications and how they are framed. This article focuses on the adaptation and acculturation processes because it is at that point that immigrants are faced with an interesting duality of reconstructing their unique cultural perceptions to either fit the existing national collective ethos or create a new reality. In this study, the main objective is to compare two different immigrant groups: Jewish and non-Jewish women from Latin America who came to Israel during the last ten years. The comparative nature of the research revealed marked differences between ethnic, religious and cultural elements that reflect coping strategies manifested in the cultural production of food and its representation in two distinct domains: private and public. In the former, it is illustrated within the family and home and how they connect or clash with the latter in the form of consumption in public. Combining cultural studies and discourse analysis, this article offers fresh insight into new models of food practices and reproductions. The article’s contribution to new food research lies in its ability to shed light on how inter-generational and inter-religious discourses are melded while food practices and traditions are embedded in a new Israeli identity.

Basic English

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474425032.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

James McElvenny

Keyword(s):

George Orwell ◽

Jeremy Bentham ◽

International Language ◽

Basic English

This chapter explores C. K. Ogden’s project Basic English against the background of the contemporary international language movement. An exposition of the international language movement, its political and philosophical commitments, is followed by an examination of the features of Ogden’s Basic and the rhetoric surrounding it. The connections between the theories developed in The Meaning of Meaning and Basic English are looked at in detail. The chapter closes with a discussion of the influence of Jeremy Bentham and his Panopticon on Basic, and of the reaction of George Orwell to the project, as revealed in his published writings and correspondence with Ogden, and in Newspeak, his parody of constructed languages.

Orwell's ‘Barbarous’ Patriotism

Scottish Affairs ◽

10.3366/scot.2016.0140 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 372-389

Author(s):

John Glassford

Keyword(s):

George Orwell ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Attentive Reader ◽

Default Position

It is not always clear what the well-spring of patriotic feeling might be, and ‘patriots’ often have difficulty articulating the origins of their passion, though sources are seldom mysterious. In this article, it is suggested that George Orwell was one such example. With the Lacanian proposition that the unconscious is structured like a language as a default position, it is evident that Orwell's texts on nationalism, patriotism, and education clearly exhibit confusion. More specifically, it is when Orwell tries to disentangle ‘Englishness’ from ‘Scottishness’ that we see that despite his apparent sophistication as a journalist and propagandist, his account of Englishness is little more than patriarchal, nationalist chauvinism of the kind he claimed to despise. The attentive reader can see it in his texts, but he was blind to the contradiction.

Perceptions of Palestine: The View from Large Linguistic Datasets

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.2016.45.2.41 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 41-54

Author(s):

Terry Regier

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Cultural Norms ◽

Cultural Perceptions ◽

Cultural Changes ◽

Cultural Shift ◽

General Theme ◽

English Usage ◽

English Speaking ◽

English Speaking World

Cultural norms and trends are often reflected in patterns of language use. This article explores cultural perceptions of Palestine and Palestinians in the English-speaking world, through two analyses of large linguistic datasets. The first analysis seeks to uncover current conceptions of participants in the Israel-Palestine conflict, by identifying words that are distinctively associated with those participants in modern English usage. The second analysis asks what historical-cultural changes led to these current conceptions. A general theme that emerges from these analyses is that a cultural shift appears to have occurred recently in the English-speaking world, marked by greater awareness of Palestinian perspectives on the conflict. Possible causes for such a cultural shift are also explored.

Searching for George Orwell : Life, Thinking and Language on the Border

The Journal of Localitology ◽

10.15299/tjl.2018.04.19.425 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 425-457

Author(s):

Yoon-Gi Bae

Keyword(s):

George Orwell

The ethnic-cultural space of modern Karachay-Balkar poetry

Voprosy literatury ◽

10.31425/0042-8795-2019-4-247-259 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 247-259

Author(s):

R. A. Kerimova

Keyword(s):

Detailed Analysis ◽

Cultural Perceptions ◽

Cultural Space ◽

Self Identity ◽

Cultural Globalization ◽

Younger Generation ◽

Fundamental Values ◽

The Way

The article is devoted to the problems of ethnic-cultural perceptions in contemporary Karachay-Balkar poetry. It defines criteria for shaping an ethnic and civic self-identity. The paper discusses how cultural globalization affects the ideology of the Karachay-Balkar people. In a detailed analysis of works by N. Bayramkulov and A. Bakkuev, two poets of a younger generation, the author argues that fundamental values and stereotypes take priority in the poetic mentality of younger artists. Closely examining the themes of the poets’ works – philosophy, religion, history, society and politics – the author specially describes the way each poet deals with the nation’s artistic memory. Another focus is on the analysis of poetics. It is suggested that the young poets’ creative method is found at convergence of realism and mythopoeia. Their poetry centers around the mythical images of stone, water, mountains, and ‘taulu’ (‘a man of the mountains’).

"Entre le Prêtre et le Commissaire" : roman et société chez George Orwell

Caliban ◽

10.3406/calib.1990.1238 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 47-60

Author(s):

Robert Buisson

Keyword(s):

George Orwell

CARNAVALIZAR É PRECISO: UMA LEITURA DA PARÓDIA EM QUEM ME DERA SER ONDA

Revista Mulemba ◽

10.35520/mulemba.2011.v3n5a4880 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Maria Teresa Salgado

Keyword(s):

George Orwell

Enfoque da novela Quem me dera ser onda, uma das mais conhecidas obras do escritor Manuel Rui e tambémda literatura angolana, a partir do diálogo que a obra sugere com A revolução dos bichos, um dos maispopulares clássicos do escritor inglês George Orwell. O conceito de carnavalização bakht iniana assim como ode paródia e de realismo grotesco são considerados instrumentos úteis para se pensar as condições culturaisda sociedade angolana na pós-independência.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Quem me dera ser onda, A revolução dos bichos, carnavalização, paródia,realismo grotesco

George Orwell Now!

10.3726/978-1-4539-1669-8 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

George Orwell

Orley Farm

10.1093/owc/9780198803744.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Anthony Trollope

Keyword(s):

George Orwell ◽

The Novel ◽

Family Experience

There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful. Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason. Surrounding this enigmatic woman and her apparent crime are her elderly lover, Sir Peregrine Orme; her principled but thoughtless son, Lucius; and, not least, a group of determined lawyers. Orley Farm contains the plot with which Trollope was most pleased. Drawing on family experience of the loss of an inheritance, the novel tackles the tremendous question of property fraud. The result, as George Orwell observed, is one of the most brilliant novels about a law suit in English fiction. Orley Farm dates from a confident period of its authorâs life. It breathes an air of writerly assurance, with Trollope at the height of his competitiveness with Dickens. In this work Trollope claims the Victorian legal novel as his own.