Criticism on Orientalism and Colonial Narrative in a Film (Eat, Pray, Love)

The essay should be based on a film or a life narrative that we have not discussed in class and has autobiographical or testimonial content: ie. it should represent, or talk about the life of a particular person or should be focusing on topics we have been exploring in class.

A life narrative that has problems in terms of traveling to, writing about or “researching” other cultures is:
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert or the movie with the same title. You can pick either a chapter of this book or the film itself to write about.

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