Theory, Space, Society Space And Its Influences On Both Academic And Social Worlds

The reader gets a rare and exotic understanding of a totally foreign and ancient culture experiencing the growing pains of colonial expansion during the British domination

“East meets West in my work, but I haven’t made an attempt to merge the two worlds. They exist in opposition” (Morimura 1990).

The writers from the U.S. looks stuck in Orientalism; the perspective which believes that the Western perspective is the only way to describe the international politics in recent situations.

Edward Said’s “States” features an insightful, in depth analysis of “Orientalism” as it applies to Palestinians and Israelis. He begins with a description of Palestine and the Palestinian condition using photographs to demonstrate a more humanized perspective of these transient people. Said reflects on his childhood in Palestine and draws from personal experience to paint a picture of a people without a home, or to be more accurate, people without an identity. A rhetorical analysis reveals the levels to which Said’s persuasion actually manages to persuade the audience. Said’s use of pathos is strong and well developed due to his use of anecdotal evidence and his insistence on humanizing the issue, while his ethos is considerably boosted by his personal experiences in Palestine, with Israelis, and his comprehensive study of

One of the things that also affect the development of literary work is Orientalism. Orientalism is one of colonial ideologies which can be found in literary work which can show author’s colonial

Orientalism in anthropology is the "western scholarship about the eastern world" (Said, 1978) but more importantly is the "fictional and irrational representation of the middle east by the western world" (Said, 1978) which is done to establish a sense of western superiority. In her introduction of the book, Ghannam expresses her dissatisfaction with the way Arab men are portrayed in the western "media, policy circles and some scholarly works" and aims to portray them with - to an extent - unprejudiced view of the issue. In addition, although she identifies and introduces herself being from a "middle eastern origin" (Ghannam, 2013), she considers herself among the western audience when she refers to them as "we" or considering the west "here". Therefore, no matter how much of an insider she considers herself to be, she still is looking at the orient from the perspective of a westerner and even her comparison of her daughter with Ahmed shows

The interactions between the two are seen in the author’s perspective with the ideas, cultures, and reflections of the various locations and how the author’s identity evolves as a result. This builds on the works of David Armitage, Linda Colley, Emma Rothschild, and Maya Jasanoff, who attempt to bridge the historiography of British Empire and nation, creating one field. As Rothschild and Jasanoff demonstrate, personal accounts reveal different perspectives of empire that of the contemporary people, of which I wish to contribute. Additionally my project builds upon historiography that endeavors to link the empire globally rather by metropole or periphery. Other historians link these concepts together through their analysis of the East India Company and its relationship to Britain. These approaches allow for my project to look at the lower classes through larger perspectives that make their mobility a global concept through a personal

Edward Said described the western way of seeing others as Orientalism, which western people believe that they are superior to the rest of the world and that the rest of the world move backwards. Although Orientalism is a misunderstanding concept of the west, it is recognised worldwide.

Because Montagu chooses to describe the Turkish women’s agency rather than their passivity, her depiction of Eastern women drastically differs from the predominantly reproduced notion of the exaggerated sensuality, submissiveness, mysteriousness, and sexual availability of Oriental women. “Unlike most Orientalist travel writers who emphasize the oppression of Islamic

In his book Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said articulates on the hybrid nature of postcolonial identities:

The main interest in postcolonial theory is what happens to people during and after colonialism. Splitting in straight lines self from other by purifying the self, is one discussion in postcolonial theory. Naturally, people view each other globally within the concept of ‘Them and Us’. One’s identity is often defined through encounters with differing cultures. Edward Said is considered the founder of postcolonial theory. In 1978 Said wrote a controversial book called Orientalism. He attempts to explain the geographical division between the West, the Occident and

From the late eighteenth to the mid twentieth century, European countries - predominantly England and France - oversaw the expansion and collapse of their empires, during which time they had come to understand their Eastern colonies through the lens of ‘Orientalism.’ A term coined by the literary critic Edward Said in 1978, Orientalism refers to the project through which Western artists and intellectuals fabricated an image of ‘the Orient’ - an area stretching between ‘India and the Bible Lands’ - in order to legitimise their control over it. This project characterised the East as an inferior, post-civilised realm, where order had been displaced by - as Said writes - an ‘Oriental backwardness.’ However, by the end of the nineteenth

rd Said’s concept of Orientalism to highlight the western ideology of othering the foreign landscape. The crux of ‘Orientalism’, being the vehicle of studying the colonial conflicts and the cultural hegemony, demarcates the European’s map road of dealing with the Other. It is one-sided ideology that reflects the Westerners’ views of the Orient as they have imagined it to be. I aim in this essay to scrutinise Bells’ narration of using the male voice in tackling the landscape in the texts under investigation.

The definition of orientalism takes up no more than two sentences in the dictionary. Coincidentally, Orientalism came to be such a complex and deep concept which Said devotes his entire book in discussing about it. His book – Orientalism unfolds the history of the Orientalism, reveals the “dark” side of an orientalist’s mind and describes the different dimensions of Orientalism. He also attempts to expose the truth of the Orient, which he warned that: “One ought never to assume that the structure of Orientalism is nothing more than a structures of lies or of myths, which were the truth about them to be told, would simply blow away” (Said). In order to understand the truth Said`s referring to, one ought to first understand the origin and

In the introduction of his book about Orientalism, Edward Said describes Orientalism as a way of coming to terms with the Orient within European (Western) experience. It is a place of Europe's greatest and richest colonies, the source of its civilizations and languages and one of its deepest and most recurring images of the Other. Orientalism expresses and represents the Orient culturally and ideologically as a mode of discourse with supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship etc. It has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience.