Orientalism Essay

other Eastern countries are being falsely depicted in a stereotyped way that is deemed as exhibiting a colonialist prejudice in many of the Western movies. The term for this wrongful representation of these Eastern countries is called orientalism. The use of orientalism is not an uncommon thing in western movies, of which, Indiana Jones movies are of no exception. Most of Indiana Jones movies take place in the Eastern countries, thus, one can see how they orientalized the citizens and the culture of

Jiangnan Yao Prof. Franziska Seraphim TA: Lia Atanat HIST1006 Feb. 16th, 2016 The eight photos I chose were arranged in a particular order. The first four were selected from the Globetrotter’s Japan while the other four photographs were chosen from John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and Its People: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs. Moreover, the photos on the left side depicted the traditional Asian people and places, in contrast with those on the right side, which seemed to be more “modern”

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

as a “curiously old-fashioned work” based on a “Hegelian vision of human history” and warned that if the work reflected the “state of the field, then the state of the field is not good” (Lockman 165). Likewise, Turner began Marx and the End of Orientalism (1971) by reflecting on the state of the field, stating that “the study of the Middle East lags behind other area studies in both theoretical and substantive terms” and has failed to contribute “significantly to the analytical development of those

adventure, which is very important because it can help eliminate orientalism and the negative views about the Middle East. It also gives us an idea on how the Middle East looked like during the 1700s. Orientalism still exists today and I will be showing examples from the text on how Montagu’s trip proves how orientalism is wrong. Edward Said stated that, “American understanding of the Orient will seem considerably less dense (Orientalism Pg. 2).” Everyone has their own assumptions and I believe this

imagery, particularly of the Ottoman empire, featured prominently in the French Neoclassicist artist Ingres ' works. Western gaze on the Orient permeates his creations of sultry women lounging around the harem, waiting for their sultan to arrive. The Orientalism of the female nudes in the paintings The Grand Odalisque (1814) and The Turkish Bath (1863) is evident. The Orient occupied the "Other" in the eyes of the west (Said 44) and became a subject of fascination for Ingres (Shelton 212). Ingres created

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and “The Perforated Sheet”. Though the plots of these two stories differ drastically, both are set in India around the time of colonialization/post-colonialization; showing components of orientalism. According to Edward Said, orientalism is defined as

is an attempt to investigate how the Eastern landscape has been othered by the West through inspecting Gertrude Bell’s travel book Persian Pictures (1894). The essay adopts Edwa 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’

Identity In Orientalism, Edward Said claims that, “as much as the West itself, the Orient is an idea that has a history and a tradition of thought, imagery, and vocabulary that have given it reality and presence in and for the West” (5). The complex network of political, economical, academic, cultural, or geographical realities of the Orient called “Orientalism” is a way of coming to terms with the Orient, or to be less geographically specific, the Other. Although Said defines Orientalism to be specifically

The West uses Orientalism to justify its blatant exploitation of the East. Both Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” and Samuel Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” unveils the West’s desire to exploit the East and define the exploitation by highlighting different dimensions to the desire. “Beachy Head” places economic exploitation at the forefront of the poem while also arguing that an underlying layer of sexual exploitation exists in the West’s desire for the East. The trade rhetoric reveals the West’s view of