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    Orientalism

    In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle East, was one of the many specialties of 19th-century academic art, and Western literature was influenced by a similar interest in Oriental themes. Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978, much academic discourse has begun to use the term 'Orientalism' to refer to a general patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies. In Said's analysis, 'the West' essentializes these societies as static and undeveloped—thereby fabricating a view of Oriental culture that can be studied, depicted, and reproduced in the service of imperial power. Implicit in this fabrication, writes Said, is the idea that Western society is developed, rational, flexible, and superior. Wikipedia

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  2. britannica.com

    Nov 29, 2024Orientalism is a Western scholarly discipline and a cultural perspective on Asian societies and cultures. Learn about its origins, methods, achievements, and controversies, as well as the life and work of Edward Said, a prominent critic of Orientalism.
  3. scienceabc.com

    May 17, 2024Orientalism is the Western perception and representation of the Orient as exotic, mysterious, and inferior. Learn how Orientalism emerged, how it is manifested in various media, and how it is critiqued by Edward Said and others.
  4. library.fiveable.me

    Orientalism refers to the Western scholarly approach and cultural representation of Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. It involves a set of assumptions, attitudes, and beliefs that construct the 'Orient' as exotic, backward, and fundamentally different from the 'Occident' or the West.
  5. link.springer.com

    Feb 14, 2023Orientalism is a term coined by Edward Said to describe the political and cultural hegemony of the West over an imagined East. This entry explores how Orientalism shaped and was shaped by Romantic-era writing, especially by women writers who deployed Eastern tropes and genres to affirm or critique European ideologies and practices of empire.
  6. link.springer.com

    Jan 1, 2025The term "Orientalism" was coined to apply to "a way of seeing and knowing about the Orient in which the Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined" (Said 1978: 63).Influenced by Frantz Fanon and other anti-colonial, revolutionary writers, this author considered how the West's study of the East originated, and how Orientalist theories and practices are presently still to ...

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