Said Flashcards
The Orient:
“…was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of…exotic beings”
“One of Europe’s deepest and most recurring images of the Other”
Defined as Europe’s contrasting idea, image, personality
Orientalism:
Academic discipline
Style of thought based on an ontological and epistemological distinction between the Orient and the Occident
A western style [a discourse] for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient. Systematic discipline by which European culture produced the Orient.
So authoritative that:
Orient could not be considered without limitations of thought bit by orientalism; Orient not a subject of free action and thought
Economically advantageous:
“European culture gained in strength and identity by setting itself off against the Orient as a sort of surrogate and underground self”
Orient and Occident are human made
Neil Lazarus in The Fetish of “The West” details how these concepts are constructs that pretend to be rooted in geographical fact in order to mask that they are really reflections of a complex ideology based originally on relative wealth and perceived inferiority. Occident spoke for and represented the Orient (gendered)
Yet more than easiLy dismissed construction:
“not an airy European fantasy, but a created body of theory and practice in which, for many generations, there has been a considerable material investment”
Given durability by the cultural hegemony of the west
Conditioned to think in a particular way
They cannot represent themselves, they must themselves be represented. (Marx) The written statement displeases any sense of the real thing. Domination of western culture a powerful factor in the life of all orientals.
Aim for future:
To contribute to the “unlearning” of the “inherent dominatuve mode”
Economically advantageous:
“European culture gained in strength and identity by setting itself off against the Orient as a sort of surrogate and underground self”
Orient and Occident are human made
Neil Lazarus in The Fetish of “The West” details how these concepts are constructs that pretend to be rooted in geographical fact in order to mask that they are really reflections of a complex ideology based originally on relative wealth and perceived inferiority. Occident spoke for and represented the Orient (gendered)
Yet more than easiLy dismissed construction:
“not an airy European fantasy, but a created body of theory and practice in which, for many generations, there has been a considerable material investment”
Given durability by the cultural hegemony of the west
Conditioned to think in a particular way
They cannot represent themselves, they must themselves be represented. (Marx) The written statement displeases any sense of the real thing. Domination of western culture a powerful factor in the life of all orientals.
Aim for future:
To contribute to the “unlearning” of the “inherent dominatuve mode”
