Orientalism

1.  Presented by: Prinjal Shiyal
 Coerce : M. A. Sem. 3
 Roll no.: 26
 Paper no.: 11
 Topic : Orientalism
 Enrolment no.: 2069108420190041
 Email id.: prinjal00123@gmail.com
 Submitted to: S.B. Gardi department of English
MKBU.

2.  “ ORIENTALISM” is the book by Edward Said
and this concept is popularised by Said in his
1978 work. He dedicated this book into
chapters parts;
 1. The Scope of Orientalism,
 2. Orientalises structure and restructure, and
 3. Orientalism now.

3.  Orientalism refers to
the two words; “
Orient” + “Occident”.
 “ORIENT” means “
The East”.
 “ OCCIDENT” means
“The West”

5.  Three chapters has own importance in this book
and each part gives us different ideas about East
and West, Cultural conflicts, different languages,
life style and so on.
 Orientalism defined as the west’s patronizing
presentations of “ The East” and the societies and
peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North
Africa, and the Middle East.
 In this book ‘Orientalism’ through Said wants to
convince to readers the ideas of compared with
east and west is like, western peoples think that
they are superior than eastern countries.

6.  Said emphasized the
relationship between
POWER and
KNOWLEDGE.
 The historian Barnard
Lewis, criticized this
theory and his argues
that Orient as a negative
image of the Western
people.

7.  Here, I find
difference
between eastern
and western
countries.
 Difference
between peoples
mentality,
behaviour,
countries, so
that types of
boundaries
western peoples
are follow
according to
them.

9.  1. The scope of Orientalism:-
 This part is chapter Said treys to say how the
science of orientalism developed and how the
oriental started considering to Orientals as non –
human beings.
 2. Orientalist structure and restructure:-
 In this part he explains about two most renowned
orientalist of 19th century.
 A. Silvestre de Sacy and B. Earnest Renan
 3. Orientalism Now:-
 This part is related to the 20th century it means
present time and western influence or in short
Orientalism now.

10.  Here is image of
traditional woman.
Than present time
we see that the
difference between
past and present
time and influence
of western life style
on Eastern
countries.

11.  Edward said finishes his essay describing his
and the orient’s crisis. ‘’The present crisis
dramatizes the disparity between text and
reality.
 Edward said concludes his book by saying that
he is not saying that the orientalists should not
make generalisation, they should include the
orient perspective too, but creating a boundary
at the first place is something which should not
be done.