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Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the West's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of The East, i.e. the Orient.Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of the Western scholarship about the Eastern World, is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it ...
Edward W. Said was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include Orientalism, The End of the Peace Process, Power, Politics and Culture, and the memoir Out of Place.
Nov 10, 2020 · Edward Said‘s publication of Orientalism (1978) made such an impact on thinking about colonial discourse that for two decades it has continued to be the site of controversy, adulation and criticism. Said‘s intervention is designed to illustrate the manner in which the representation of Europe‘s ‘others’ has been institutionalised since at least the eighteenth century as a feature of its cultural dominance. Orientalism describes the various disciplines, institutions, processes of ...
Jun 17, 2024 · 1. Edward Said’s Orientalism: Introduction. Edward Said’s Orientalism is his most celebrated work that hit the stalls in 1978. It has been influential in about half a dozen established disciplines, especially literary studies (English, comparative literature), history, anthropology, sociology, area studies (mainly Middle East studies) and comparative religion.In Orientalism, Said examines Western representations (fiction and nonfiction) of the Middle Eastern societies and cultures.The ...
Feb 12, 2023 · These tropes form a part of what Palestinian-American intellectual and activist Edward Said called Orientalism.His seminal 1978 book of the same name explores the ways Western experts, or ...
Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American philosopher, academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual ...
Orientalism by Said, Edward W. Publication date 1979 Topics Orientalism, ... Orientalism is the example Mr. Said uses, and by it he means something precise. The scholar who studies the Orient (and specifically the Muslim Orient), the imaginitive writer who takes it as his subject, and the institutions which have been concerned with teaching it, settling it, ruling it, all have a certain representation or idea of the Orient defined as being other than the Occident, mysterious, unchanging and ...
Oct 12, 1979 · In his seminal work Orientalism, Edward Said argues that western scholarship on the Arab and Muslim world and its history, culture, politics and institutions is tainted by subtle Eurocentric prejudices against Arab and Islamic peoples, whose world and culture are depicted as inferior to the West. For Said, western “pseudo-scholars” who report on the Arab world portray the Arabs as exotic, temperamental and irrational, presenting the Orient through the colored, racist lens of Orientalism. ...
Dec 14, 2017 · Orientalism is a cultural and political phenomenon and not just an empty abstraction. “Orientalism is a rethinking of what has been considered an impassable gulf between East and West for centuries. My aim was not so much to eliminate the differences – who can ever deny the constitutive character of national and cultural differences in... read more »
EDWARD W. SAID was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
