1. • Presenter: Drashti V. Dave
• Topic of presentation: 3 terms :
Nation/Nationalism, Imperialism and
Orientalism.
• Enrolment no: PG13101007
• Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of
English
• Maharaja Krisnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University
• Paper no: 11- The post-colonial Literature
• Roll no: 06 Year: 2014 Unit-5
• Sem: 3 M.A. part-2
2. 1) Nationalism:
Nationalism is a belief, creed
or political ideology that
involves an individual
identifying with, or becoming
attached to, one's nation.
Nationalism involves national
identity, by contrast with the
related construct of patriotism
which involves the social
conditioning and personal
behaviors that support a
state's decisions and actions.
3. • From a political or sociological perspective, there are
two main perspectives on the origins and basis of
nationalism.
Nationalism
premodernist
ancient
modernist
recent
4. • A nation is a large group of people who share a common
language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history.
• The concept of "nation" is related to "ethnic community"
or ethnic.
• National flags, national anthems and other symbols of
national identity are commonly considered highly
important symbols of the national community.
• “Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the
measles of mankind.”
― Albert Einstein
5. 4) Imperialism:
Imperialism is a policy of extending
a country’s power and influence
through colonization, use of military
force, or other means.
The term as such primarily has been
applied to Western political and
economic dominance in the 19th and
20th centuries. Some writers, such as
Edward Said, use the term more
broadly to describe any system of
domination and subordination
organized with an imperial center.
Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of
Darkness”. In this novel main
theme are colonialism and
imperialism.
6. According to Marxist theorist
Vladimir Lenin, imperialism
is a natural feature of a
developed capitalist nation
state as it matures into
monopoly capitalism. In his
work Imperialism, the
Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Lewis Samuel Feuer
identifies two major subtypes
of imperialism;
i) regressive imperialism
&
ii) progressive imperialism
7. 5) Orientalism:
• "Orientalism” is a way of
seeing that imagines,
emphasizes, exaggerates and
distorts differences of Arab
peoples and cultures as
compared to that of Europe
and the U.S. It often involves
seeing Arab culture as exotic,
backward, uncivilized, and at
times dangerous. Edward W.
Said, in his groundbreaking
book, Orientalism, defined it
as the acceptance in the West
of “the basic distinction
between East and West
(Wikipedia)
8. • Examples of early Orientalism can be seen in European
paintings and photographs and also in images from the
World’s Fair in the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and
epistemological distinction made between;
9. • Orient- the Eastern part of Asia.
• It is opposite to Occident.
• "Orientalism" is widely used in art to refer to
the works of the many Western 19th-century
artists, who specialized in "Oriental" subjects,
often drawing on their travels to Western Asia.
Artists as well as scholars were already
described as "Orientalists" in the 19th century,
especially in France, where the term, with a
rather dismissive sense, was largely
popularized by the critic Jules-Antoine
Castagnary
