1. NAME : BORICHA DEVIKA K
SEM: (3)
PAPER NO: 11
TOPIC: INTRODUCTION OF ORIENTALISM BY EDWERD SAID
MY EMAIL ID: devikaboricha08@gmail.com
MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
DR.DILIP BARAD
2. *Orientalism is a 1978 book by EdwardW. Said,
in which the author discusses Orientalism.
*Edward Said born on
1 November 1935
* Died on 25 September 2003 (aged 67)
*was a professor of literature
at Columbia University, a public
intellectual.
* and a founder of the academic field
of postcolonial studies A Palestinian
American born in Mandatory Palestine,
he was a citizen of the United States by
way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran.
3. •Orientalism is a 1978 book by EdwardW. Said, in which the
author discussesOrientalism, defined as the West's
patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and
peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the
Middle East.
4. •"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.
•It often involves seeing
Arab culture as exotic,
backward, uncivilized, and
at times dangerous.
5. Edward Said: “The Orient exists for theWest, and is constructed by
and in relation to theWest. It is a mirror image of what is inferior
and alien (‘Other’) to theWest.”
6. These are sweeping generalizations
that cross national and cultural
boundaries
The Oriental man: depicted as feminine,
weak, yet dangerous in his threat to white,
Western women
The Oriental woman: depicted as
eager to be dominated, strikingly
exotic
7. He presented the important
hypothesis in his book, Orientalism,
that without examining Orientalism
as a discourse one cannot possibly
understand the enormously
systematic discipline by which
European culture was able to
manage--and even produce--the
Orient .
Said argued that European culture
gained in strength and identity by setting
itself of against the Orient as a sort of
surrogate and even underground self,
defining Orientalism as aWestern
style for dominating,
restructuring, and having
authority over the Orient.
