While Middle Eastern studies can improve‚ and some part of Said’s criticism is valid‚ it is apparent that the Orientalism critique has done more harm than good. Although Said accuses the West and Western researchers of "essentializing" Islam‚ he himself commits a similar sin when he writes that Western researchers and the West are monolithic and unchanging. Such a view delegitimizes any search for knowledge--the very foundation of the academy. One of Said’s greatest Arab critics‚ Syrian philosopher
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of his conquests in Egypt. In this essay‚ the author aims to analyze the works of Jean-Leon Gerome and Georges Prosper Remi‚ and their depictions of the ‘Other’ and the idea of Orientalism where an idea of what the east is like‚ interpreted by western eyes. How these two works have come to represent the contemporary view of how the Occidentals viewed the Orient. Jean-Leon Gerome Jean-Leon Gerome was born in Vesoul‚ France in 1824. He was a French painter and sculptor famous for his style
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reality. The Western eagerness to characterize the Oriental came from the desire to put a face to the unknown‚ becoming "a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between" East and West‚ them and us‚ "the familiar and the strange" (43). Orientalism became a dictionary displaying the characteristics of the Oriental subject‚ characteristics that were fixed and unchangeable (42‚ 70). The attributes given to the Oriental helped strengthen the image of Western superiority
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Instructor: Course: Date: A Passage to India through the Lens of Orientalism Orientalism presents a critical study of the Western world’s patronizing cultural representations and perceptions‚ as well as their fictional depictions‚ of the Eastern world and the people inhabiting the Middle East and Asia. Said (p.32) notes that Orientalism‚ which involves scholarship in Western Countries about the East‚ is tied inextricably to Imperialism and this makes it intellectually suspect because it is the product
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changing fashionable take on war of 1812 demonstrates the depth of the subject. Though war of 1812 is a favourite topic of discussion amongst monarchs‚ presidents and dictators‚ war of 1812 is not given the credit if deserves for inspiring many of the worlds famous painters. Crossing many cultural barriers it still draws remarks such as ’I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole’ and ’i’d rather eat wasps’ from the easily lead‚ trapped by their infamous history. Though I would rather be in bed I will now
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analysis in mind‚ Said focuses his work on the interplay between the Occident and the Orient‚ the Occident representing the Western civilizations such as Europe and France‚ and the Orient being the term for the misrepresented Middle East and Far East. Said states “Orientalism [is] a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient’s special place in European Western experience” (Said‚ 1978:1). In other words‚ according to Said‚ the West has created a dichotomy between the realities
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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 entities (seen only with the western eyes) which do not explain nor reflect the true nature of the object. We then generalize from theses singles observations‚ set up categories and labels. We are now able to answer questions very simply creating this illusion of knowledge.
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