Orientalism by Edward Said...
Orientalism by Edward W. Said..
#Identify any 5 concepts related Orientalism from the interview of Edward Said...
***Orientalism is ...
Orientalism is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West.
***What is 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 as the starting point for elaborate theories, epics, novels, social descriptions, and political accounts concerning the Orient, its people, customs, ‘mind,’ destiny and so on.”
1) "Orientalism" revolutionized the study of the Middle East and helped to create and shape entire new fields of study such as Post-Colonial theory as well influencing disciplines as diverse as English, History, Anthropology, Political Science and Cultural Studies.Edward Said's contribution is to how we understand this general process of what we could call stereotyping has been immense.
2) Orientalism tries to answers the question of why, when we think of the Middle East for example, we have a preconceived notion of what kind of people live there, what they believe, how they act. Even though we may never have been there, or indeed even met anyone from there.
3) Orientalism is the creates an image outside of history of something that is placid and still and eternal.Which is simply contradicted by the fact of history.
4) The difference between British and French Orientalism on the one hand and the American experience of the Orient on the other is that the American one is much more indirect, much more based on abstractions.”In the past, British and French Orientalism was direct and now the American Orientalism is indirect. It questions the power system in terms of media, popular culture and globalization.
5) Edward said draw on work of Antonio Gramsci,"Therefor the task at outset, is to try to complies an inventory" in other words to try and make sense of it, it and this seems to me to be the most interesting sort of human task. It's task of giving history some shape and sense, for a particular reason not just show that my history is better than yours, or my history is worse than yours.Professor said's analysis of Orientalism isn't just a description of its content but a sustained argument for why it looks the way it does.
Thank You...
#Identify any 5 concepts related Orientalism from the interview of Edward Said...
***Orientalism is ...
Orientalism is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West.
***What is 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 as the starting point for elaborate theories, epics, novels, social descriptions, and political accounts concerning the Orient, its people, customs, ‘mind,’ destiny and so on.”
1) "Orientalism" revolutionized the study of the Middle East and helped to create and shape entire new fields of study such as Post-Colonial theory as well influencing disciplines as diverse as English, History, Anthropology, Political Science and Cultural Studies.Edward Said's contribution is to how we understand this general process of what we could call stereotyping has been immense.
2) Orientalism tries to answers the question of why, when we think of the Middle East for example, we have a preconceived notion of what kind of people live there, what they believe, how they act. Even though we may never have been there, or indeed even met anyone from there.
3) Orientalism is the creates an image outside of history of something that is placid and still and eternal.Which is simply contradicted by the fact of history.
4) The difference between British and French Orientalism on the one hand and the American experience of the Orient on the other is that the American one is much more indirect, much more based on abstractions.”In the past, British and French Orientalism was direct and now the American Orientalism is indirect. It questions the power system in terms of media, popular culture and globalization.
5) Edward said draw on work of Antonio Gramsci,"Therefor the task at outset, is to try to complies an inventory" in other words to try and make sense of it, it and this seems to me to be the most interesting sort of human task. It's task of giving history some shape and sense, for a particular reason not just show that my history is better than yours, or my history is worse than yours.Professor said's analysis of Orientalism isn't just a description of its content but a sustained argument for why it looks the way it does.
Thank You...
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