Edward Said

“Orientalism” Edward Said was one of the most important cultural figures of the late twentieth century. In 1978 Said made the influential argument that scholarly writing in the United States and Europe was misrepresenting the cultural representations of the east. He called this study of the East Orientalism and the researchers or scholars – Orientalists. Said argued that the Orient is the stage of where the whole east is confined, including the Middle East, East Asia and Northern Africa. Said believed

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

Stuart Hall’s The West and the Rest and Edward Said’s Orientalism both explore notions of power and discourse with regard to the dynamics of the Western world and the non-Western world. The works engage with the concept of a worldwide binary of two unequal sides, and how certain discourses, namely that of “the West and the Rest”, and Orientalism, have both stemmed from this idea and worked to maintain it. While Hall engages with the idea of “the West and the Rest” – the Western world and how it has

Years of Turmoil" Stereotyping of Arabs by the U.S. Ensures Years of Turmoil by Edward Said (1935-2003) is an argumentative article that illustrates Americans preconceived notions about the Arab population. Edward Said, a renowned Professor of Literature at Columbia University provides a background for this essay with his most famous work, Orientalism. Orientalism revolves around the concept of orientalist thinking and Said believes that the Americans portray this sort of thinking which entails generalizations

the other? E.K. Brown is his essay Rhythm in E.M. Forster’s a Passage to India concludes that such a friendship is virtually impossible especially in India. Apart from quoting Brown’s point of view I have quoted various other critics including Edward Said and Benita Parry to substantiate my claim. The racist attitude of the British toward the native population and the oppression of Indians can be seen through the cruelty of Major Callendar, who brags of torturing an Indian by putting pepper on his

In "States" the author, Edward Said, discloses the story of his people, the Palestinians, in an epic to express to the world the disconcerting challenges endured by the struggling Palestinian culture. The underlying claim is that of which is fair for any people to aspire, the dream to be master in your own house. Thus translated into the ideals of nationalism: blood and belonging. Said uses a combination of both photographs and writing style to tell a story that is deeper than the plain text.

which is a prejudice form of perceiving the Orient and its people as inferior. Orientalism distorts the imagines and exaggerates the culture of Arabs as uncivilized, exotic, dangerous, and subsidiary in comparison to Europe and the United States. Edward W. Said, one of the most important figures of the late twenty century, discussed and analyzed orientalism in his groundbreaking book Orientalism published in 1978. In his account, he defined Orientalism as the consent in the West of “the basic distinction

Said, however, the academic Western conscience was granted a novel opportunity to gain insight into the area of postcolonial phenomenon and theory, and thus, intimate details regarding “the other.”30 As a result, I find that the motivations of “othering” are certainly not of a purely logical nature, but rather influenced by powerful emotions and psychological reactions. Through his book Or i en t a li sm (1978), as well as later texts, Said describes the ways in which

have more power to speak than others. Edward Said observes that the contemporary Western View of the Orient as an outsider and an inferior part of the West is manifested in the academic sphere. Western scholars use Oriental images and ideologies to consolidate the intellectual awkwardness of the' Other' .In other words, these views of the Orient are attempts to portray the superiority and intellectuality of the western status. (Said,1979). For Spivak, representation is not only a matter

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 reading can help eliminate the assumptions of the Middle East and to improve awareness