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What Is Orientalism?
Beginning of Essay
Said made a clear analogy between orientalism and colonialism. They are both set
with the same binary opposition.
white/ non white
occidental/ non occidental
In a very detailed and structured study of the orient (behavior, hab .... Middle of Essay .... and ideas, subjectively authenticated
itself. The content is no longer address and leaves the victim of the discourse
reduced to plain and pure denial. The content has become a set of prejudicial
belief (cliches).
To remind you of the famous aphorism: "the pen is mightier than the sword"
He writes:
"Orientalism is fundamentally a political doctrine willed over the orient
because the orient was weaker than the west."
Though injustice has already been served and the political establishment is
capitalizing on those cliches, it is interesting to notice that SAID himself
already looks at the orient with orientalism (western eye).
Was the orient ....
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