Original scientific paper
Delo's Orientalist Gaze: Framing the Images of the Iraq War
Ilija Tomanić Trivundžija
Abstract
The paper analyzes the photographic representation of the U.S. attack on Iraq
in the Slovene newspaper Delo. It shows how this representation was distinctly
framed in the discourse of Orientalism with particular emphasis on the role of
Delo’s own, independent sources to show that such an ideological venture is
not necessarily a consequence of the Western control over the images of war.
Rather, it depends primarily on culturally specific patterns of (collective) selfidentification,
in this case the mechanisms of Slovene national identity construction
and its relation to the Balkan context and specific socio-historical
circumstances (operation Enduring Freedom started just before Slovenia held
referendums on joining the EU and NATO).
Keywords
Orientalism; war photography; journalistic discourse; war in Iraq; national identity; Delo (newspaper)
Hrčak ID:
23003
URI
Publication date:
28.11.2004.
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