Reading colonial discourses

Reading colonial discourses

1. 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

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