EDWARD SAID: ORIENTALISM

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• EDWARD SAIDORIENTALISM

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ORIENTALISM AS DISCOURSE

• MAIN THEMES OF ORIENTALISM
• EXOTIC EAST
• EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST AND THE TWAIN SHALL
  NEVER MEET
• WHITE MANS BURDEN/MISSION CIVILISATRICE

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ORIENTALISM AS DISCIPLINE

• Orientalism exercises power and has authority
  over the Orient
• Orientalism produces and manages the Orient

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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 ones 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?

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THEORETICAL CONCEPTS IN THE CRITIQUE OF
ORIENTALISM (cont.)

• Strategic Formation
• Strategic Location

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POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE

• SAIDS WORK
• THE TRILOGY OF ORIENTALISM
• Orientalism
• The Question of Palestine
• Covering Islam

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OUT OF PLACE

• Said in His Late Years