Edward Said Summary

After the Palestinians were exiled of their country, the tradition had became a part of their identity. Meaning even the Palestinian people had left their country, the Palestinian culture is there to recognize of what defines the Palestinian people’s true identity. In addition, the Palestinian culture is also a symbol for the Palestinians as they formed a community based on their shared language. While the Palestinian people were living in other countries, the Palestinians have experienced the racial views from the people in different countries. In the essay, Said talks about when the Palestinians doesn’t have a state but instead they live in other countries,where the people has referred the Palestinians as a “legend”. After the Palestinians
The “States” essay of Edward Said is an example of autoethnography, which it’s based on the “ Arts of the Contact Zone” of Pratt’s essay where the people have made representations of themselves that was perceived from the
This concludes a homogeneity and heterogeneity community of Pratt’s essay in the “ Arts of the Contact Zone”, which she states when the people has a shared culture with each other are equal, and the other who doesn't have a shared culture are different. In other words, the culture/ dialect has created two forms of different communities between the Palestinians and the Jewish people in Israel. The Jewish people represents a homogeneous community as they referred themselves as the dominant dominant, while the Palestinians is a heterogeneous community, which defines them as the ‘ other”. Afterwards, the reason for the Palestinians has formed a community is actually based of their shared experience as well as the suffering of being exiled of their country. The goal of Edward Said was to regain the Palestinians’ self identity based on the representation of the photographs back in Israel as they were in exile of their former country. He also used some of the people from other different countries’ representations to the Palestinians to support his statement. The purpose of Said is using the countries’ accusations of the Palestinian people as thy referred them