Farewell‚ beloved Country‚ treasured region of the sun‚ Pearl of the sea of the Orient‚ our lost Eden! To you eagerly I surrender this sad and gloomy life; And were it brighter‚ fresher‚ more florid‚ Even then I’d give it to you‚ for your sake alone. In fields of battle‚ deliriously fighting‚ Others give you their lives‚ without doubt‚ without regret; The place matters not: where there’s cypress‚ laurel or lily‚ On a plank or open field‚ in combat or cruel martyrdom‚ It’s all the
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The world of the “exotic” and strangeness is an inherently interesting subject matter among people. Fascinations with the “other” world are depicted in poems‚ novels‚ literary descriptions and art as an attempt to understand‚ romanticise or exploit another culture. The Napoleonic expedition to Egypt from 1798 to 1799 brought forth a heightened interest among artists to explore the world of the Oriental and spurred a torrent of “Orientalists” which became a pervasive force in 19th Century Western
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Journey by Cathy Song In most cases its is the the old woman who makes the journey the old man having had the sense to stay put and die at home you see her scurrying behind her newly arrived family. She comes from the Azores and she comes from the the Orient. It makes no difference. You have seen her before the short substantial legs buckle under the weight of the child she carried centuries ago like a buundle of rags who now turns in fronmt of your windshield‚ transformed in western clothes The grown
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Orientalism.” Nineteenth century scholars were mostly interested in Manifest Orientalism which is things we can observe about the Orient like language‚ literature‚ art‚ history. Most nineteenth century scholars saw Orient as backward‚ degenerate and weird. Because of this thought nineteenth century scholars saw Orient as a place requires attention of the West. The Orient was inefficient to represent itself so the West should advertise
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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‚ habit‚ tradition ...) we document a large amount of fact and data. All compile in a general study they produce the illusion of a well understood and objectively constructed knowledge. These are‚ in fact‚ mere observations and purely subjective
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Disorientated Lavish silks‚ ornate free-flowing clothing‚ and silent streams running through lush landscapes full of tigers; these are obviously signs of the Orient. Any sign and symbol that is not Western can only be a representation of the East. The imitation of Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures by American and European writers is known as “Orientalism.” An example of an “Oriental” man is smaller‚ slightly more feminine‚ yet is somehow still mysterious and threatening to a white male; while
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dealing with the Orient - dealing with it by making statements about it‚ authorizing views of it‚ describing it‚ by teaching it‚ settling it‚ [and] ruling over it" (3). However‚ Said points out that even if Orientalism from the beginning was not "a creation with no corresponding reality" the concept he studies in the book is that of "the internal consistency of Orientalism and its ideas about the Orient ... despite or beyond any correspondence" with the "real" Orient (5). What Said is
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hegemony over the orient. Crisis. ‘Crisis’ is one of the remarkable essays of Said’s classic work ‘Orientalism. In this essay‚ he exposes the limitations of Orientalism. He says that it is outright folly to base one’s ideas of reality on what he calls “a textual attitude.” Orient was created‚ materialized and sustained by the texts of the Western Orientalists. What is fed through books need not be real. The Orientalism as enunciated in books by Orientalists is a concept about the Orient and the Orientals
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1. Orientalism Western’ interest and motivation on the “Orient” or Eastern-based cultures regions is an unstated‚ and perhaps unrecognized motivation to exploit the region and in doing so‚ enrich the west. When we look around our daily life‚ no matter you live in which continent‚ there are Iphones‚ Cocacola‚ Nikes‚ Mcdonald’s‚ L’Oreal‚ English expressions or ads. Some might said these are just multinationals and advanced technological goods. They are changing our daily lives and shaping the
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identifies how the western world “spoke” for and represented the Orient‚ while the Orient was kept silent to maintain and allow this position of power for the westerner. In Said’s Orientalism‚ he gives a brief history of these phenomena he identifies and describes. He says‚ [t]aking the late eighteenth century as a very roughly defined starting point Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it‚ authorizing
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