Orientalism

• Name: Jayshree Kunchala• Roll No : 10• Sem :3• Paper :Post-Colonial Literature• Guided By : Prof. &Dr.Dilip Barad• Submitted To : Department Of English,

M.K.Bhavnagar University jayshreekunchala@mail.com

The orient This dose not always just refer as a place but also represent a number of political

influences on western consciousness its learning and its

empire.

The term orient was created by the west to

create an inferior mirror image of it self.

OrientalismPart-3

1.The distinction between pure and

political knowledge

2.The Methodological

question 3. The personal dimension

1. The distinction between pure and political knowledge.

“My idea is that European and than American interest in the orient was political according to some of the

obvious historical accounts of it that it was cultural and created interest the acted

dynamically along with brute political, economic, and

military rationales to make the Orient the varied and complicated place that it

obviously was in the field I call orientalisam”

Power

Cultural

Political

Intellectual

Moral

Supporting institutionVocabularyScholarshipImageryDoctrines

Colonial bureaucraciesColonial styles

Cultural & Ideological Discourse

Occident Power domination hegemony

Orient

Europeans & Americans

Asians & Arabians

“According to Said the culture and the history must be studied for knowing and evaluating the literature of any

country .”

With the idea about “We” and “They” Indeed his real argument is that

Orientalism is and does not simply represent a considerable dimension

of modern political-intellectual culture, and as such has less to do with the orient than it does with

“our” world. And his political question What is the meaning of

originality, of continuity, of individuality, in the context? So in

answer we can say that each humanistic investigation must formulate the nature of that

connection in the specific context of the study, and the subject matter, and

its historical circumstances.

2.The Methodological question

“My principal methodological devices for studying authority here are what can be called strategic location which is

way of describing the authors position and strategic

formation and referential power among them selves and there after culture at

large”.

Yet what German Orientalism had in common with Anglo-French and later American Orientalism was a kind of

intellectual authority over the orient within western culture.

He use notion of strategy simply to identify the

problem every writer on the orient has faced how to get

hold of it how to approach it how not be defeated or

overwhelmed by its sublimity its scope its awful dimentionsions.

Michel Foucault to whose work Said greatly

indebted he do believe in the determining imprint

of individual writers upon the otherwise

anonymous collective body of text constituting

a discursive formation like orientalism. And for

students of literature and orientalism offers a

marvelous instance of the interrelations

between society history and textuality.

3.The personal dimension

Personal investment in this study derives from my awareness of being an “oriental” as a child growing up in the two

British colony. Domination has been so

powerfulIslamic orient has had to be center of attention.