ORIENTALISM AN INTRODUCTION

E – E – 305 – C - Post Colonial

Literature,

Prepared by : - Maulik B. Bhatt,

M. A. Part – II, Semester – III,

Roll No: 03,

Department of English,

Bhavnagar University,

Bhavnagar.

WHAT HE TALKS ABOUT?

What were the Immediate Impulses?

Arab - Israel War

The Constant disparity between his own experience as an Arab and the

representation in art –

If Anybody want to talk about India, Egypt - 1850/60s the talk- little chance to

address the subject in free and creative way

The Repertory of Images kept coming up

In the study of Experts even –

1. Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians Edward William Lane 1830

2. Journey to the Orient Gerard de Nerval 1920 Century

Image Outside the History

Creation of an Ideal Other – A Sustained Argument about why the West look the

way it Does???

CONT…

Locates the Construction of Orientalism within the History of Imperial Conquest

British and French – Imperialism – Politically + Ideologically

American more Political not Ideological

Napoleon's – Modern Imperial Expedition(1898)

Eurocentric View

Foucault’s – The Archeology of Knowledge and Discipline and Punish

Gramsci’s – Cultural Hegemony