EDWARD SAID:

ORIENTALISM

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

ORIENTALISM AS DISCIPLINE
Orientalism exercises power and has
authority over the Orient
Orientalism produces and manages
the Orient

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?

THEORETICAL CONCEPTS IN
THE CRITIQUE OF
ORIENTALISM (cont.)
Strategic Formation
Strategic Location

POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE
SAIDS WORK
THE TRILOGY OF ORIENTALISM
Orientalism
The Question of Palestine
Covering Islam

OUT OF PLACE
Said in His Late Years