Brief overview of Orientalism and explain 'Occident' and 'orient'.

1. Name: Trivedi Disha Hiteshbhai
Paper no: 11 (post-colonialism)
Topic: Brief overview of Orientalism explain occident
and orient
Year: 2015-2017
M.A.Sem=3
Submitted to: Smt. S.b.gardi department of English M. K.
Bhavnagar University

2.  Edward Said was a Palestinian
 born American
 professor and scholar.
 A literary theorist and academician.
 he wrote many books on literary
criticism, musical criticism, and
issues of post-colonialism.
 He was one of the most influential
advocates in the U.S. who
campaigned for the political rights
and independence of the
Palestinians—he was called ‘the
most powerful voice” for
Palestinians
 He is best known for his book
‘Orientalism’, published in 1978.
Edward said

3.  Colonialism is the basic concept of mercantilism, which is
an imperial idea suggests that colonies exist for the benefit
of the mother country and should be governed
accordingly. When a country develops colonies, or acquires
them, it becomes an empire. "The sun never sets on the
British Empire" because at any given time, the sun was up
somewhere in the world where a British colony existed.
 There are other types of colonialism, such as economic
colonialism. When your economy is the dominant source
of trade and jobs for another country or region, it could be
said to be a type of economic colony of the larger one.

4.  Post-colonialism comes after colonialism. Post colonialism
is the study of a culture after the physical and political
withdrawal of an oppressive power.
 Post colonial is a term related to the post colonial literature
which is the product of the third world countries which
share certain formal and discursive features. They
demonstrate ‘resistance’ and subversion’ of the imperial
‘centre’. The post colonial discourse refers to the writing
and reading habits rooted in colonial psyche as a
consequence of European expansion and exploitation of
other worlds. Bill Ashcroft identifies three common features
of post colonialism.

5.  The occident deals with the
West countries (West
means the countries of
Europe, America, and
France). Occident derives
from the Latin word
Occident. Occident means
the hemisphere that
includes North America
and South America.
 New world or Western
hemisphere.

6.  The orient almost a European invention had been
since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings,
haunting memories, landscapes, and remarkable
experience.
 The term ‘Orient’ is derives from the Latin word
‘oriens’ is meaning ‘East’. Orient is depends on the
logic of discourse. Orients are incapable of change
they are static.

7. Occident
West
Civilized
Colonizer
Modern
Present
future
Active
Orient
East
Uncivilized
Colonized
Mysterious
Past
Lazy

8.  The country of the east especially East Asia.
 Study of orient means a study of orients.
 Old civilization with an old knowledge system.
 Problem between White and Muslim people.
 A story of Middle-East.
 Strangers by the fortune of colours.
 Identities are not made naturally.
 Post Structuralism has changed way of thinking.
 Subjective and objective process.
 Orientalism is generally means to a mental exercise and
mental archrival.

9.  The “East” as differentiated from the “West”, which includes
the Middle East, Near East, Central Asia, South Asia and the
Far East.
 Today top of mind with news breaking in a stream of anxiety,
fear, economic and political pressures, social conflict, unrest
and war.
 “The Orient was almost a European invention, and had
been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic being,
haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable
experiences.”

11.  http://nikunjbhatti2014-
2016.blogspot.in/2015/11/orientalism.html
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZiyXEF1Aas
 https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/whatr-
colonialism-66951
 http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/edward-
said-5247.php