EDWARD SAID:

ORIENTALISM
 ORIENTALISM AS DISCOURSE
• MAIN THEMES OF
ORIENTALISM
– EXOTIC EAST
– EAST IS EAST AND WEST
IS WEST AND THE TWAIN
SHALL NEVER MEET
– WHITE MAN’S
BURDEN/MISSION
CIVILISATRICE
 ORIENTALISM AS DISCIPLINE
• Orientalism exercises power and has authority
over the Orient
• Orientalism produces and manages the Orient
 THEORETICAL CONCEPTS IN THE
CRITIQUE OF ORIENTALISM
• Beginnings: How to determine a starting point
• Exile: What is it?
• Theodor Adorno: It is part of morality not to
be at home in one’s home (Reader: xiv)
• Contrapuntal Analysis: Consider the topic from
as many vantage points as possible
• Representation:
– Who represents whom?
– How do you represent the subject?
 THEORETICAL CONCEPTS IN THE
CRITIQUE OF ORIENTALISM (cont.)
• Strategic Formation
• Strategic Location
 POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE
• SAID’S WORK
• THE TRILOGY OF ORIENTALISM
• Orientalism
• The Question of Palestine
• Covering Islam
 OUT OF PLACE
• Said in His Late Years