Edward Said's contribution in postcolonial studies. Anti-Semitism and Anti Muslim sentiment both derived from the same source that is Orientalism and goes in hand in hand with.

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3. TOPIC
 Edward Said’s Contribution on
Postcolonial Studies

4. What is Postcolonial Studies?
 Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the outlook and studies as
responses to colonial subjugation of European or Western to Third
and Forth world that emerges in 70’s.It refers to a historical phase
undergone by the Third World countries after the decline of
colonialism. However it’s not only talking about Western colonial
subjugation but also various reality of Injustice, Culture and
Gender domination ,sexual orientation issues , social class,
subaltern people experiences etc.

5. The 3 Pillars of Postcolonial Theory
1. Edward W. Said
2. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3. Homi k. Bhabha

6. Edward Said and Postcolonial Studies
Edward Said(1935-2003)
Orientalism (1978)
Culture and Imperialism (1993)

7. Orientalism
 Marked the beginnings of
postcolonial studies.
 Foundational text for the academic
field of post colonial studies.
(1978)

8. The Idea of Orientalism
 Becomes popular in 1980s.
 Specifically after the publication of Said’s book Orientalism.
 Said is the pioneer of this field of study, orientalism.

9. Orient and Occident
 The study Orientalism leads to divisions between East (the Orient)
and West (the Occident).
 The relationship between Orient and Occident is a relationship of
power and domination.

10. Binary of Self/ Other
 East as ‘Other’.
 West as ‘Self’.
 The Occident always presented themselves as superior.
 The Orient are presented as inferior.

11. Anti-Semitism and Anti Islam attitude
 Both are originated from the same source, Orientalism and goes
hand in hand with.

12. Culture and Imperialism
 Said attempts to trace the connection
between imperialism and culture in
the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
 Said conceived of Culture and
Imperialism as an attempt to “expand
the argument” of Orientalism “to
describe a more general pattern of
relationships between the modern
metropolitan west and its overseas
territories.”
(1993)

13. Contrapuntal Reading
 Is used in interpreting colonial texts.
 This approach is not only helpful but also necessary in making
important connections in a novel.
 According to Said, contrapuntal reading means reading a text
"with an understanding of what is involved when an author
shows, for instance, that a colonial sugar plantation is seen as
important to the process of maintaining a particular style of life
in England".
 It necessitates a vision in which imperialism and literature are
viewed simultaneously.