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Edward Said's Orientalism: Is it still alive today in the contemporary world

IJSER, 2020

The article carries informaton about current situation of Orientalism. Especially in the context of Edward W, Said's book Orientalism, the living conditions in Orientalism are discussed. How the West has been exploiting the East since prehistoric period and clonial period, it has been aptly discussed. Moreever, there is a clear idia that current Orientlism exists. In fact this research article has been written based on book reviews. Although there was a lack of information on Orientalism, attempts have been made to provide more information than others articles.

The East-West Dichotomy: From Orientalism to Postcoloniality

IOSR Journals , 2019

The main purpose of this study is to define and explain the concept of 'Orientalism' developed and practised by Edward Said, a pioneer postcolonial theorist. According to him, the concept of Orientalism refers to the western views about the Orient or the East. However, it has raised a number of debates among the scholars on defining his concept. It can be defined in three ways as: an academic field of study, an epistemological and ontological way of looking at the world and a western hegemony. It has also been the focus of a number of controversies and polemics such as crisis on Orientalism, its connection with western theories and the rise of Occidentalism. Many scholars agree with the fact that the publication of the book Orientalism is a beginning of postcolonial discourse in history, philosophy, anthropology, arts and literature. Similarly, it provides an approach to the study of non-western texts. Interestingly because both Orientalism and NonWestern Studies deconstruct the Western Studies, both are therefore sometimes referred to as 'poststructuralist' approaches.

Orientalism by Edward Said: A Study of Postcolonial Culture

zahraa, 2023

The article will discuss how postcolonialism addresses themes like Orientalist discourse, loss of identity, ethnicity, culture, oppression, and representation in the modern period. As a field of study, it adopts a deconstructionist attitude, and it questions what the colonized do and how he behaves when the colonizer confronts him. Orientalism is a key work for

“How About Reconstructing Orientalism?”: A Summary And Overview Of Edward Said’s Saturated Criticism

Edward Said is viewed as the creator of the academic development of post-colonialism, largely with his transmission of the concept " Orientalism. " Orientalism is considered his magnum opus. He is a forerunner in the deconstruction of the so-called 'Western' forms of hegemony that not only subverts the traditional understandings of 'Occident' and 'Orient', but also the " East-West, " as being simplistic, binary oppositional platforms, divorced from the necessary divergent ontological framework for understanding the reality of the current-day. Yet, these false and simplified platforms are continuing in the common worldviews, at the expense of losing a clearer understanding of our conditions.

Orientalism: Edward Said’s vision of the clash of cultures

(Chapter of the book RELIGION, CULTURE AND SENSE OE BELONGING)

The Orientalism is probably more than an intellectual overhaul to the legacy of the European colonialism in the Middle East. It is according to one of its most ferocious opponents (the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said), „a way of coming to terms with the Orient” that is based on the Orient‟s special place in European experience, the place of Europe‟s greatest and richest colonies. A site that helped to define Europe (or the West) as the East contrasting image, idea, personality and experience‟ [Said 1978:1-2]. My commentary aims to look inside Edward Said‟s theory and see how it passed the test of time and the consolidation of American hegemonism and Islamic political radicalism.

Reorienting Edward Said's Orientalism: Multiple Perspectives

International Journal of English Language Studies , 2023

Edward Said remained a little-known scholar both in the West and in the Arab World until the publication of his major work, Orientalism, in 1978, in which he argues that Western representations of the East have historically been distorted and oversimplified and that these representations have been used to justify European imperialism and domination. This proved a turning point in his academic career, bringing him recognition in the West and, somewhat later, in the Arab World. The purpose of this study is to synthesize and assess Said's theoretical and discursive views in order to offer a full and representative review and analysis of his work and how translation impact on Arabic reader's perspective. When analyzing Said's work, the study primarily relies on his own Orientalism theorizations.

Reflections on Edward Said's Legacy: Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Enlightenment [1]

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue …, 2006

How are we to understand Edward Said's critique of the imbrication of knowledge and colonial power in light of his own education at elite universities such as Princeton and Harvard? Is Said's own path through elite colonial schooling in the Middle East and the exclusive schools of the United States a context for understanding the origins of his arguments in Orientalism? Yu uses the tension in Said's own commitment to a cosmopolitan ideal of knowledge to explore the contradictions within the legacies of the Enlightenment and European colonialism. Résumé Comment faut-il comprendre la critique qu'Edward Said formule sur l'imbrication du savoir et de l'influence coloniale quand on sait qu'il fut lui-même issu de milieux universitaires élitistes comme ceux de Princeton et de Harvard ? Le fait que Said a reçu son instruction au Moyen-Orient dans le réseau scolaire colonial réservé à l'élite et qu'il a fréquenté aux États-Unis de prestigieux établissements d'enseignement permet-il d'expliquer les origines de sa pensée sur l'orientalisme ? Dans sa poursuite d'un idéal cosmopolite du savoir, Said exprime une tension qu'exploite Henry Yu pour faire ressortir les contradictions contenues dans l'héritage du Siècle des lumières et du colonialisme européen. M y purpose in this essay is to reflect on some of the legacies of Edward Said's conception of Orientalism, in particular his examination of the interplay between cosmopolitan ideals and exotic identity, between the taxonomy of the world as an organized array of categories in the mind of the enlightened scholar and the surveillance of being that is the epistemological and 1 Thanks to Amerasia Journal for the permission to use as a small portion of this essay as a memorial tribute to Edward Said in 2005. Also to the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Brown University for an invitation to be a speaker in their 2004 series on "Other Orientalisms." 16

Orientalism on Trial: Rethinking The Post-colonial Project in The East

International Journal of Arts and Humanities Studies

This article explores the perplexities revolving in the vicinity of Orientalism. It tries to discern, dissect, and (re)view Orientalism and its role in shaping today’s world, more importantly, the binomial ambivalence of the West versus East connection. Said’s work, Orientalism, is going to be the locus of this article. In his book, the author tries to describe how the West perceives and represents the East. Through the author’s journey in the U.S., where he spent most of his life, he noticed that the West considers the East a one homogenous and static body. Edward Said’s stance on the separation of the world into two entities and the postcolonial project did not go unnoticed. In this article, the author’s work is analyzed in relation to his critics such as Ahmed Aijaz, Bernard Lewis, Samuel Huntington, and others.