1. Orientalism
Bringing together the works of Said, Loti, and many other important literary sources, I will look critically at the historical interaction between the West and ˜The Rest' and analyze key subtopics including but not limited to; geopolitical issues, bi-orientalism, how the views of the Orient have changed throughout time, multifaceted issues within The Orient, and why the West is so interested in The Orient. .
Throughout his novel, Said identifies several dangerous assumptions made by the West about the Orient that had the chance, given the influence of the West over the past 2000 years, to materialize and contribute to the manifestation of complex issues within the Orient. Educationally, the domination has been so complete for such an amount of time that Said goes as far as to say that even supposed outwardly objective Western texts and literary works on the East have been long-permeated with bias that it was unrecognizable by Western scholars. Thus, claiming that aside from the often-discussed political supremacy of the West, Western scholars have also successfully employed the interpretation of the Orient's languages, history and culture for themselves by writing The Orient's past and constructing its modern identities from a perspective that views Europe as the norm and The Orient as the socially-constructed, "exotic.".
Moreover, Said explores how the assumptions put forth by these Western scholars have been constructed in opposition to how the West portrays themselves as the rational, as the open-minded, as the tolerant, and thus defines this projected image of ˜The Orient' as something we are not under the constituted definition of what ˜the other' is. What is so perilous about assumptions, when it is just this, assumptions? The precarious outcomes of the assumptions by the influential West has resulted in the misrepresentation of what the truth can be, and has impacted both ideologies and the interrelationships between these parts of the world.
In his 1979 essay entitled "The Scope of Orientalism", Professor Edward Said presents the idea by analyzing the relationships between East and West during the nineteenth and twentieth century. ... as Said asks. ... Chomsky creates a portal through which the essence of Said's concept of orientalism can be discerned. ... Said and Chomsky both discuss power. ... Said's tone is more even-keeled. ...
The dialectical relationship between Occident and Orient as discussed by Edward Said is a manifestation of "us versus them." ... (Said, 98). ... Orientalism is an account of the West's collective view of Eastern culture through what Said argues is a distorted lens called the Orient. ... While Said's observations and conclusions appear valid, he leaves out a crucial aspect of Islamic (Oriental) history that mollifies the notion of western imperialism. ... It is time that we view Edward Said's Orientalism as the Oriental response to the Occident, and not as objective truth. ...
Edward W. Said, a professor at Columbia University, studies the flaw in the perspective of the "Orient" by the "Occident" in his essay, Orientalism. ... By obtaining an Oriental background myself, I understood and sympathized with Said's opinions. ... Throughout his analysis, Said fails to specifically refer to the Oriental countries other than those of the Near Orient. ... Nonetheless, Edward W. ...
Second, I will have a brief synopsis of dehumanization and demonization in orientalism, and the idea of suspect communities. ... Orientalism and Suspect Communities Orientalism is, "The systematic attempt to create the categories of the the 'West' and the 'Orient' whereby, the West is equated with self, rational, civilized, humane, superior; and the East/orient with other, irrational, undeveloped, savage, inferior" as defined by Edward Said (Trainor, 2015). ... Orientalism was very common post 9/11. ... Mathur (2006) cited many detainees that were wrongfully conv...
As suggested by Edward Said in his writing, Orientalism, people viewed Europe as peaceful, sensual, and rational; as opposed to the East, which was thought to be dangerous, violent, and irrational. ... She is always wearing exotic clothes, and an excess of "oriental- jewelry: dangling earrings, multiple bracelets, and necklaces. ...
Disney, as a Western enterprise attempts to interpret cultures and lifestyles of the East in what Edward Said calls Orientalism. ... Said describes Orientalism as "a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient's special place in European Western Experience."" ... The relationship between what Edward Said calls the Occident (West) and the Orient shows us how Western culture has manipulated our thinking and it is also an indication of European power since it is the place of Europe's riches....Said describes it as "a European invention, a place of romance, exoti...
She said: " when in the Netherlands do as Dutch". ... And for the question of the failure of the Dutch policy of integration, she said that it is the minority groups who are not outgoing and they prefer to keep themselves within their own groups. ... One said we will fix it up at 8 .00. ... Another saying which goes hand in hand with I have said is the saying '' the paradise lies under the feet of the mothers'. ...
Edward Said, a professor from Columbia University, felt that European perceptions of Middle East had not changed for many years; they were portrayed as erotic, mysterious, and full of marvels, he called this Orientalism. ...