Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Reading colonial discourses
- ORIENTALISM, Edward Said, 1978
- Main topics
- Orient
constructs binary
oppositions
- Orient is a
western
fantasy
- Orient is literary
and creative
- Distinction
- LATENT: Constant
dreams about the
Orient
- MANIFEST:
Particular
maniffestations
- Critiscism
- Orientalism is
ahistorical (it
does not change)
- Orientalism
ignores resistance
by colonised
- Orientalism
ignores resistance
within the West
- Orientalism
neglects the
significance
of gender
- Stereotypes
- The Orient
is TIMELESS
- The Orient is
STRANGE
- "Orientals" are
stereotypized
- The Orient is
DEGENERATED
- The Orient
is feminine