HIS 2160 Lecture Notes - Religious Zionism, Muhammad Abduh, Ottoman Turkish Language
2 Jan 2013
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Prior to said"s orientalism definition, the definition was for an oriental scholarship , eastern languages. A study of western discourse, academic etc. Said looks at the literature, the depiction of orientals in western culture. Orientalism: a manner of regularized (or orientalised) writing, vision, and study, dominated by imperatives, perspectives, and ideological biases ostensibly suited to the orient. The orient: is constructed by and in relations to the west. It is a mirror image of what is inferior and alien (other) to the west. Said the orient has been a european invention . Orient has also helped to define the west, as a contrasting image, idea, personality, experience the orient is an integral part of european material . In orientalism, men are depicted as dangerous; women are considered to be eager to be dominated, but also exotic. The oriental is a single image, sweeping generalization.
