EDWARD SAID: ORIENTALISM
ORIENTALISM AS DISCOURSE MAIN THEMES OF ORIENTALISM – EXOTIC EAST – EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST AND THE TWAIN SHALL NEVER MEET – WHITE MAN’S BURDEN/MISSION CIVILISATRICE
ORIENTALISM AS DISCIPLINE Orientalism exercises power and has authority over the Orient Orientalism produces and manages the Orient
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS IN THE CRITIQUE OF ORIENTALISM Beginnings: How to determine a starting point Exile: What is it? Theodor Adorno: It is part of morality not to be at home in one’s home (Reader: xiv) Contrapuntal Analysis: Consider the topic from as many vantage points as possible Representation: – Who represents whom? – How do you represent the subject?
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS IN THE CRITIQUE OF ORIENTALISM (cont.) Strategic Formation Strategic Location
POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE SAID’S WORK THE TRILOGY OF ORIENTALISM Orientalism The Question of Palestine Covering Islam
OUT OF PLACE Said in His Late Years