Orientalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Orientalism refers to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists. An "Orientalist" may be a person engaged in these activities, but it is ...
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Many scholars place the beginning of postcolonial studies in history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and the arts at the publication of Said's Orientalism, published in 1978. Said focuses his attention in this work on the interplay between the "Occident" and the "Orient." The Occident is his term for the...
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www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/orientalism.htm
www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/orientalism.htm
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Orientalism is "a manner of regularized (or Orientalized) writing, vision, and study, dominated by imperatives, perspectives, and ideological biases ostensibly suited to the Orient." It is the image of the 'Orient' expressed as an entire system of thought and scholarship.
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www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Orientalism.html
www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Orientalism.html
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The phenomenon which is generally known as Orientalism is but one aspect of Western misrepresentations of Islam. Today, most Muslims in the West would probably agree that the majority of distortions about Islam come from the media, whether in newspapers, magazines or on television.
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www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/orientalism.html
www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/orientalism.html
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Orientalism (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orientalism is the 1978 book by Edward Said that has been highly influential in postcolonial studies. In the book, Said says that orientalism, especially the academic study of, and discourse, polit...
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On Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism by Ibn Warraq. ... The contradictory aspects of the man came together in Orientalism, a book Said published in 1978. The thesis was that every Westerner who had ever studied or written about the Middle East had done so in bad faith.
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www.newcriterion.com/archive/17/jan99/said.htm
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Nine years ago I wrote an afterword for Orientalism which, in trying to clarify what I believed I had and had not said, stressed not only the many discussions that had opened up since my book appeared in 1978, but the ways in which a work about representations of "the Orient" lent itself to increasing misinterpretation.
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www.counterpunch.org/said08052003.html
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