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The essay "The Notion of orientalism and the Contemporary Society" focuses on the critical analysis of the depiction and portrayal of elements about the East Asian culture as referred to as Orientalism.... Edward Said has incorporated Gramsci's theory of hegemony with his theory of orientalism to further elucidate how the western culture has dominated the entire globe and thereby serves as a barometer to determine the norm (Mackenzie, 1995, 1-20).... The latter point clearly illustrates how the western view of orientalism was extremely restricted and had several gaps in it (Macfie, 2002, 25-28; Kramer, 2007)....
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n 1975-1976 Said became a fellow at Stanford University and wrote orientalism (1978), the book that made him famous.... In the next three years he published Covering Islam (1981) and The Question of Palestine (1979), which, in conjunction with orientalism, has been called his trilogy.... Attacks on Said suggest an "orientalism" on the part of the right-wing Zionists.... Criticized contemporary Arabic society for "all it's political failures, its human rights abuses, its stunning military incompetencies, its decreasing production, [and] the fact that alone of all modern peoples, we have receded in democratic and technological and scientific development....
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In short, the relevance of orientalism in the twentieth century literary criticism as a tool of colonial discourse cannot be questioned and Edward Said is the chief proponent of this method of analysing the true image of the 'Orient' in the Western literary theory.... In order to realize orientalism as a tool of colonial discourse in the twentieth century literary criticism it is essential to comprehend the concept of orientalism as proposed by Edward Said.... The concept of orientalism was in air much before him and it was a term more widely used in the 19th century art history....
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In keeping with Said's notion that literary production provides the raw material of politics, this study will use novels written by Arabs and Moslems to examine orientalism, colonialism, the search for home and the quest for identity.... More specifically, eight Arab and Moslem novels and three Occidental ones will be used to examine Edward Said's thesis on orientalism and the validity of his statement about literature and politics....
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This paper presents a comprehensive examination of orientalism, including its' complex and multifaceted creature capable of evolving into other forms such as self-Orientalism, especially in media texts (Freire, 2000:145).... The paper "orientalism and Self-orientalism in the Media" highlights that one of the most important aspects in Said's orientalism is the comprehensive explanation of the methods that construct 'the Others' by the West conceptually as its despotic, inferior, barbaric opposite, or alter ego....
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The paper "Edward Said and His Perspectives on orientalism" discusses that the portrayal of women in such works was doubly degrading, as first, they were humiliated as Orientals, and secondly, they were further humiliated as weak women subjugated within a cruel patriarchal society.... orientalism discusses the underlying prejudice of the western world against oriental people, mainly the Islamic people and their traditions (Said, 2001)....
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"Edward Said: orientalism's Effect on Art and History" paper focuses on Edward Said, a scholar and critical writer of postcolonial studies with increasingly legendary status.... n 1975-1976 Said became a fellow at Stanford University and wrote orientalism (1978), the book that made him famous....
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His binary opposition is further supported by the discussion of the Civil War in Lebanon in 1975, the failure of the negotiation processes in Oslo, and the subsequent development of dubious meanings with regard to the East.... Said was, probably, the first to define, describe, and conceptualize the system of principles that had dominated the relations between the Western imperialist ideology and the Eastern failure to withstand the discussed imperialist pressures....
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