Orientalism
Orientalism book written by Edward said, the term orient is derives from the Latin word orient means East. Study of orient it means study of orients
In this book said explain the difference between East world and West world.
We see two types of differences :-
1. Culture difference &
2. Political difference
What's Orientalism in Literature :-
In art history, literature and cultural studies,Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West.
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According to Said, in the Middle East, the social, economic, and cultural practices of the ruling Arab elites indicate they are imperial satraps who have internalized the romanticized "Arab Culture" created by French, British and, later, American Orientalists; the examples include critical analyses of the colonial literature of Joseph Conrad, which conflates a people, a time, and a place into a narrative of incident and adventure in an exotic land.
The critical application of post-structuralism in the scholarship of Orientalism influenced the development of literary theory, cultural criticism, and the field of Middle Eastern studies, especially regarding how academics practice their intellectual inquiry when examining, describing, and explaining the Middle East.The scope of Said's scholarship established Orientalism as a foundation text in the field of post-colonial culture studies, which examines the denotations and connotations of Orientalism, and the history of a country's post-colonial period.
According to western country they are superior than eastern country or they are more developed and well civilized country. They thing that people of eastern country their uncivilized people and their are "Junglee". They don't know how to live as human Being. They never accepted that they cheated with eastern country and doing Atyachar on them.
Orientalism tries to explain that how we understand people and other peoples, Orientalism raise question on our mind that how we think about other people means who belong to other culture or other countries.
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