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Edward Said and Postcolonialism Guiding Questions I. Postcolonialism: Introduction 1). According to the essay entitled "Postcolonialism: Introduction," colonization is a process by which foreign peoples travel to a new land, establish settlements, and ultimately come to ________________________ that new land and the native peoples in it. 2). According to the essay entitled "Postcolonialism: Introduction," colonies are [usually] established for ____________________purposes. The main goal is to take ____________________ resources from the colonized land and send them back to the mother country. This helps the mother country become __________________. 3). According to the essay entitled "Postcolonialism: Introduction," European colonizers, and later the United States as a colonizer, spoke of extending their control into foreign lands as a_____________________. They proposed that the natives being invaded did not have civilization--and that civilization was exactly what was needed. The ideology here--the unexamined assumption-- was that the Western world (Europe and the United States) were ___________________________________ to the non-Western world. 4). According to the essay entitled "Postcolonialism: Introduction," European powers ____________________ over their colonies by the 1960s. So, the 1960s, more or less, mark when the "____________________" period began. 5). According to the essay entitled "Postcolonialism: Introduction," postcolonialism analyzes the impacts of colonization upon_____________________________________.

6). According to the essay entitled "Postcolonialism: Introduction," Edward Said, author of a famous book entitled _________________________, often is credited as establishing the field of postcolonial studies. 7). According to the essay entitled "Postcolonialism: Introduction," postcolonial scholars generally view the colonizers and the colonized through a ________________________ lens. Colonizers are seen as the oppressors of those they invaded. Colonized peoples are seen as the oppressed. II. Postcolonialism: WTF? An Introduction to Postcolonial Theory (video) 8). According to the video, "Postcolonialism: WTF?," postcolonialism is an umbrella term which we use to describe a set of __________________ and practices which seek to explore the _________________________________ in the present day. 9). According to the video, "Postcolonialism: WTF?," ________________________ is the suggestion that, if a certain group in society has more political or economic power, they will likely also have an inequitable amount of __________________ in framing or deciding what the culture of that society, in which both they and the more disempowered groups, live. 10). According to the video, "Postcolonialism: WTF?," the central thrust of Said's thesis (his main idea) is that in a global culture dominated by "the West," "the East" has usually been represented (often by "the West") as being illogical, mysterious, __________________, driven by base human passions. In contrast to this, "the West" has often been represented as logical, cultured, and, in short, the norm.

III. Islam as a Threat: Precursor to Orientalism 11). According to the article entitled "Islam as a Threat," the earliest forms of knowledge about Islam that were produced in Europe were _________________ by __________________ encounters between Europeans and Muslims. 12). According to the article entitled "Islam as a Threat," Islam was often identified as a _________________ by Europeans. 13). According to the article entitled "Islam as a Threat," as of the seventeenth century (1600s), one can speak of a relatively consistent field of study which, more than anything else, asserted various notions of _____________________ between ______________ and __________________ /Ottoman world. 14). According to the article entitled "Islam as a Threat," the ______________________ in most of the overarching accounts of ______________________is decline. The inevitable decline of Muslim societies is usually explained by underscoring what is ________________________ in Muslim societies, polities, and even_______________________. 15). According to the article entitled "Islam as a Threat," against the backdrop of the _________________ values of freedom, rationality, and progress, ___________________societies are characterized by despotism, obscurantism, and oral depravity.

IV. Summary of Orientalism , by Edward Said 16). According to the article entitled, "Summary of Orientalism," Orientalism is a way of describing the peoples of the Mideast—from an Asian perspective. True or False? 17). According to the article entitled, "Summary of Orientalism," Orientalism is based upon the assumption of a similarity between East and West. True or False? 18). According to the article entitled, "Summary of Orientalism," Edward Said argues that the Europeans divided the world into two parts. One was the West (the Occident) and the other was the East (_____________________). The Occident was understood to be civilized. The _________________________ was believed to be_____________________. Although this boundary was artificial, it set the stage for hundreds of years of _____________________________. 19). According to the article entitled, "Summary of Orientalism," _________________________ of “Orientals” were spread across the Western world through scientific reports, literature, art, and other media. These created a certain ___________________ of “Orientals.” 20). According to the article entitled, "Summary of Orientalism," Orientals were regarded as uncivilized people. True or False? 21). According to the article entitled, "Summary of Orientalism," Orientals were viewed as lazy, irrational, _____________________, and crude. In contrast, almost automatically, Europeans saw themselves as rational, ______________________, and_____________________________.

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