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- Title: Orientalism
- Author: Edward W. Said
- ISBN: 9780394740676
- Page: 159
- Format: Paperback
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The following is a true story Me, in a San Franscisco bar reading Orientalism.The blonde girl next to me reading over my shoulder So what s Orientalism I explain as best I can in a couple sentences Her There are so many isms in Asia like Buddhism and Taoism You know what book you should read The Tao of Poo It s sooo good It s, like, the perfect way to teach Americans about Eastern Religion Horrified, I look back to my book and take a sip of beer.
There s a curious double standard between what we expect from White guy authors compared to authors of any other background When an author is a Native American, for example, we tend to expect their books to deliver to us the Native American experience If the author is a woman, we tend to expect that her book will show us the female perspective to the degree that female authors who write stories about men are forced to take on a masculine or nondescript name, like J.K Rowling.So we get Western ed [...]
This is a fascinatingly interesting book It is also a book that is virtually required reading if you are going to say anything at all about post colonialism Whether you agree or disagree with the central theme of the book is almost beside the point This work is seminal and landmark so it can be avoided only at your own cost.I ll get to the central idea of the book in a second, but first some advice for people thinking of reading it I think, if I only wanted to get an idea of what the book was ab [...]
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn t trust the evidence of one s eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest miss [...]
An amazing classic book from the late Edward Sa d about the origins of the Western view of the Orient that shaped literature and music in the 17th 20th century It is a penetrating view of various racial stereotypes of Arab peoples dressed in sheets smoking hookahs and generally under educated and prone to laziness and violence that pervades all levels of society and served the interests of colonialism to appease consciences of all the violence and subjugation that occurred in China, India the Mi [...]
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Yes in many ways, Said s Orientalism is a classic And he s right about some things Western art and literature created a whole fantasy world about the Orient which included the Balkans and Russia over the last few centuries Western scholarship about North Africa or the Middle East or India could be and was used by colonial powers But as critics especially Bernard Lewis and Robert Irwin have pointed out, Said took a handful of serious ideas and created his own fantasy world of Orientalism destroyi [...]
Obviously this is a must read, which has been much drawn on and critiqued by later post anti colonial writers I have just read the copious notes I made when I read it in 2007 sort of ironic that I read a westerner s gloss rather than re reading the original and noted some points of particular interestJohn of Segovia proposed a conference with Islam designed to produce mass conversion even if it were to last ten years it would be less expensive and damaging than war To me this is a perfect exampl [...]
Orientalism is a masterpiece of comparative literature studies and deconstruction, published in 1978 it is arguably Said s most rigorous piece but undoubtedly his most influential This is a examination of the academic discipline of Oriental Studies, which has a long history most of the European universities Oriental Studies is a pastiche areas of study which include philology, linguistics, ethnography, and the interpretation of culture through the discovery, recovery, compilation, and translatio [...]
I think the problem with reading Orientalism today is that much of what he says that was so revolutionary at the time is so accepted now at least among most academics He s a brilliant writer, although he did irritate me at times he constantly vilified anyone trying to represent anything, claiming, rightfully, that it is only possible to have a misrepresentation of anything built on one s own experiences and culture, and I did truly want to remind him that was what he was doing with Orientalism, [...]
Intellectual porn for self hating westerners, shockingly became one of the most influential texts of the last 25 years Said s pompous, self important writing style papers over yawning gaps in scholarship and breathtaking dishonesty Finally, some academics appear to be getting over their institutional infatuation with Said and the critical tide is starting to turn None too soon.
Une lecture essentielle pour tout le monde, qui que vous soyez La postface crite par Edward Said 16 ans apr s la publication de son essai est tr s int ressante et enrichissante puisqu il y revient sur les critiques et diverses interpr tations faites de son texte aux quatre coins du monde et nous rappelle ce que son texte N EST PAS, mais l exp rience d montre qu il est tr s difficile de ne pas y voir ce que chacun esp re ou redoute La citation choisie par Edward Said au d but de son essai prend t [...]
I ve been ashamed I hadn t read Orientalism, and now I know I had reason to be ashamed It s rightly a classic Though its ideas have seeped out so that much was familiar, there was a lot of clarity in going back to source I expected a pugnacious book, to use a word from the back cover But it s not pugnacious in style or content Perhaps in the first shock of publication it seemed so It s a fair minded book, humanist in a word he refuses to relinquish that wins my heart His point is not to condemn [...]
Still the most influential book in Cultural, Near Eastern, Arab, Islamic, and Post Colonialist Studies Interesting how everyone giving it a bad ambivalent review is someone that simply can t acknowledge history 200 300 years of colonialism which was then only replaced by neo imperialism in the form of wars, economic exploitation, and political interference through force Is the world any different even today Obviously not You re not hating the West by acknowledging this truth, Edward Said asserts [...]
A literary philosophical analysis of perceptions of the Orient as something different, exotic, passionate, religious, and inferior The Orient as it was, was thought of as such in many ways since the Crusades, perhaps before, and all the way up to the Ottoman Empire But as the Europeans became colonial powers, perceptions continued to influence action.Im curious over why the author omitted German sources, and possible perceptions of West v East Europe the multiethnic Habsburg Empire, and the Russ [...]
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Ce livre est un pamphlet crit au si cle dernier par un professeur de litt rature am ricain, dans lequel l Orientalisme est d nonc comme une imposture pernicieuse qui v hiculerait depuis deux si cles une fausse image n gative et raciste des habitants de l Orient, qui masquerait un dessein cach de domination et d asservissement, et aurait conduit, du fait de son vain prestige de pr tendue science, hier les gouvernements d Europe au colonialisme et aujourd hui celui des tats Unis une politique inju [...]
Recent Reads Orientalism, The Satanic Verses, and The Geek Feminist In a sense the limitations of Orientalism are the limitations that follow upon disregarding, essentializing, denuding the humanity of another culture, people, or geographical region I recently read Said s Culture and Imperialism , which I adored for its study on the effects of imperialism on literature, and this one is equally at par This work should ve been read first though, as it explores orientalism as a Western created conc [...]
I started to pick at this foundational work while I was still in Iraq 2007 Things I saw from both Americans and Iraqis began to remind me faintly of some half remembered ideas from Said s pen Said s stated purpose of writing was to show how an intellectual study such as Orientalism can not be viewed independently from the influence of power dynamics on an author Orientalism, he stated, responded directly to the West s need to possess and control an East that it considered inferior, doing so thro [...]
This is a great example of a paradigm shift in the social scientist s perspective Something like orientalism was so taken for granted over the centuries that it took someone like Said to simply take a step back and say dude, what the fuck As I read it, I found myself trying to step back from the orientalizations in my own life and in the cultural social life around me For the life examined.
This is a seminal postmodern postcolonial work of critical theory and cultural studies, deconstructing one of the most dominant grand narratives of our civilization, that continues to fuel xenofobia and wars.
The way this book was explaining the prevalence ond logic of Islamophobia I had to check the date, expecting it to be a very current book Frightening that although it was written in the 70s the sort of racism and terror mongering described in it is if anything wide spread than ever This book very eloquently shows how orientalism works it makes no parallels to things like the male female binary who speaks, who describes whom, who is exoticised as other , less and deficit but to me reading as a f [...]
One of the biggest hurdles that we humans have yet to surmount is the way we think of our identity as something essential fixed and immutable we re born a certain way, in a certain environment, in a certain culture, and that alone decides who we are, who we will become, and how we re going to act It s beyond us to be anything else It s wrong to be anything else As long as we have that conception, as long as we keep drawing sharp, permanent, diving lines, as long as we keep thinking of some peopl [...]
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Said was required reading in my Conflict Transformation graduate studies and this is the modern classic and standard on the concept of othering Yet I d never read the entire work Sections of this book are constantly utilized in the academic world, so it was about time to finally read it, and also timely as far as my current location geographically and personally As some have said, the ideas in this book are often acknowledged by many intellectuals with various degrees of acceptance depending on [...]
It s become a total clich to say this, but I m gonna anyway This work is relevant than ever If you want an inexpensive, at home university course on the history of Islam phobia and ways in which the West has appropriated, marginalized, and re presented and consequently colonized the East, this is your book This is also a scintillating example of literary analysis and how important and germane deconstruction can be in illuminating power dynamics and seemingly benign discourse which is actually d [...]