Orientalism

Edward Wadie Said

(born November 1, 1935, Jerusalem

— d i e d S e p te m b e r 2 5 , 2 0 0 3 , N e w
Yo r k , N e w Yo r k , U . S . ) , Pa l e s t i n i a n
American academic, political
activist, and literar y critic who
e x a m i n e d l i t e r a t u re i n l i g h t of
social and cultural politics and was
a n o u t s p o ke n p ro p o n e n t of t h e
p o l i t i c a l r i g h t s of t h e Pa l e s t i n i a n
p e o p l e a n d t h e c re a t i o n of a n
i n d e p e n d e n t Pa l e s t i n i a n s t a t e .
 Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author establishes the term
"Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the West's commonly contemptuous depiction
and portrayal of The East, i.e. the Orient.
 1 2 3
The Scope Orientalist Orientalism
of Structures and Now
Orientalism Restructures
Orientalism as an Orientalism as a style
academic tradition; of thought based on
anyone researching, unshakeable belief in
teaching or writing a radical distinction
about the Orient is between Orient and
an Orientalist and Occident upon which
what he does is a large body of
Orientalism theories, novels,
social portraits and
political accounts
as a Western style were based.
for dominating the
Orient.
The Orient is an integral part of European material civilization and culture.
Orientalism expresses and represents that part culturally and even ideologically as
a mode of discourse with supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship, imagery,
doctrines, even colonial bureaucracies and colonial styles.
Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and
epistemological distinction made between "the Orient" and (most of the time)
"the Occident."
The exteriority of the representation is always
governed by some version of the truism that
if the Orient could represent itself, it
would; since it cannot, the representation
does the job, for the West, and faute de
mieux, for the poor Orient.

Too often literature and culture are presumed

to be politically, even historically innocent; it
has regularly seemed otherwise to me, and
certainly my study of Orientalism has
convinced me that society and literary
culture can only be understood and
studied together.

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Rudyard Kipling
Kim
 Thus, as I have been saying, Kim is a master work of
imperialism: I mean this as an interpretation of a rich
and absolutely fascinating, but nevertheless
profoundly embarrassing novel.

Said’s introduction to
Kipling’s novel Kim
(1987)
Kimball O’Hara (Kim),
the son of an Irish mother,
who died in India when he
was born, and an Irish father,
who was colour sergeant of
the regiment and who died
and left Kim in the care of a
half-caste woman.
A Tibetan Lama, Colonel The Babu
who becomes Kim’s Creighton, Hurree Chunder
instructor and whose Mookerjee, a babu, and
the director of the
ambition it is to find also a member of the
British Secret Service
the holy River of the Secret Service.
Arrow that would wash
away all sin.
Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a
Geisha
Flaubert's encounter with an Egyptian courtesan
produced a widely influential model of the
Oriental woman; she never spoke of herself, she
never represented her emotions, presence, or
history. He spoke for and represented her. He
was foreign, comparatively wealthy, male, and
these were historical facts of domination that
allowed him not only to possess [the courtesan]
physically but to speak for her and tell his
readers in what way she was ‘typically
Oriental.’
Said, Orientalism
1. Edward W. Said. Orientalism. Penguin Classics, 2003
2. Kim Character List https://www.gradesaver.com/kim/study-
guide/character-list Sources:
3. Said’s Penguin introduction to Kipling’s novel Kim
https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/sj6/SaidIntroductionKim.pdf
4. Re-reading Rudyard Kipling's "Kim". A Postcolonial Approach
https://www.grin.com/document/298280
5. Post-colonial Multicultural Identity in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim
http://tlhjournal.com/uploads/products/31.k.kaviyarasu-
article.pdf
6. White Skin Black Mask: Rudyard Kipling’s Kim in the Light of
Postcolonialism
https://bkuniv.eazyclasses.com/Upload/Files/IFJ5621_13.pdf
7. Memoirs of a Geisha and Orientalism
http://fycjournal.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Me
moirs-of-a-Geisha-and-Orientalism.pdf
8. Memoirs of the Orient https://www.jstor.org/stable/3591971?
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