Orientalism

Identify any 5 concepts related Orientalismfrom the interview of Edward Said.

Here is my response,

1 )The central argument of Orientalism is that the way that we acquire this knowledge is not innocent or objective but the end result of a process that reflects certain interests. That is, it is highly motivated. Specifically Said argues that the way the West, Europe and the U.S. looks at the countries and peoples of the Middle East is through a lens that distorts the actual reality of those places and those people. He calls this lens through which we view that part of the world Orientalism, a framework that we use to understand the unfamiliar and the strange; to make the peoples of the Middle East appear different and threatening

2 ) Mainly ‘other’ is questioned here. It ultimately a point to question. The issue that focus on real concern at least for other.

3 ) Edward Said said that he comes instead with an enormous army of soldiers but also scientists, Botanists, Architects, Philologists, Biologists, Historians, whose job it was to record Egypt in every conceivable way. And produce a kind of scientific survey of Egypt, Which was designed, not for the Egyptian but for the European.

4 ) "Orientalism" is widely used in art to refer to the works of the many Western 19th-century artists, who specialized in "Oriental" subjects, often drawing on their travels to Western Asia.


5)  Orientalism dates from the period of European Enlightenment and colonization of the Arab World. Orientalism provided a rationalization for European colonialism based on a self-serving history in which “the West” constructed “the East” as extremely different and inferior, and therefore in need of Western intervention or “rescue."

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