Few people, except for hard core historians and literary theorists have ventured much beyond his introduction and most readers probably find his later work, Culture and Imperialism (1993) more interesting to read. As such, the investigation and analysis Said applied in Orientalism proved especially practical in literary criticism and cultural studies,[9] such as the post-colonial histories of India by Gyan Prakash,[64] Nicholas Dirks[65] and Ronald Inden,[66] modern Cambodia by Simon Springer,[67] and the literary theories of Homi K. Bhabha,[68] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak[69] and Hamid Dabashi (Iran: A People Interrupted, 2007). Orientalism as a European textual construction is implicated with colonial authority and is a product of exteriority in which the Orientalist is the one who represents the Orient as the other. ... For anyone to deny the horrendous experience of anti–Semitism and the Holocaust is unacceptable. “It hardly needs to demonstrated again that language itself is a highly organized and encoded system, which employs many devices to express, indicate, exchange messages and information, represent and so forth.” As a result of this “representation,” regardless of the century, the Orient is always fixed in time and place in the mind of the West and the represented “history” of the “Orient” is conceived of as a series of responses to the West which is always the actor and judge of Oriental behavior. Professor of literature and a public intellectual, Omri, Mohamed-Salah, "The Portrait of the Intellectual as a Porter". Said, following Foucault, stated that “Orientalism” is a discourse, a whole network of interests. In other words, Kissinger assumed that the experience of the Enlightenment is necessary for “civilization”. Perhaps the most influential and widely read Post-Colonial critic was the late Edward Said  (1935 – 2003) a Palestinian intellectual who was born in Jerusalem and died in exile in America. That said, Michel Foucault’s elaboration on the “discourse” is probably the most important of Said’s intellectual influences. That doesn’t exist in any other religion. People had always lived in territories that had a Muslim history but in order for these groups to be elucidated they had to be discursively constructed–named and studied and controlled. 2015. The Orient is divided into two spaces: the Near East and the Far East, but this Orient is but a stage where the East is confined. It is a mirror image of what is inferior and alien (‘Other‘) to the West. Edward Said died in exile, never wavering from his position that Israel was a colonial entity established by imperialist powers and imposed illegitimately upon a people that were considered to have no claim to territory or to identity. As a result, the theme of exile – which played no less significant a role in Said's writing and life – is often overlooked. Barenboim and Said jointly received the 2002 Prince of Asturias Awards for their work in "improving understanding between nations". His distinct negative view of colonialism and post-colonialism and hence partially of western culture, stems from his theory of a “binary social relationship” wherein western culture misrepresents the “oriental world” as inferior and irrational and portrays their own culture as superior, rational and civil. Foucault dated the habit of Western Othering from the post-Medieval substitution of the leper with the mad person as the Other in society. The Orient was constructed along the lines of other conquered territories, as “inferior”, as “feminine”, as “uncivilized”, as “barbaric”, and as the Other. The European encounter with the alien culture was not only a cultural clash but also a meeting between unequals. . Reading Orientalism: Chapter 1(Pages 40-43)| Edward Said| Postcolonialism| Postcolonial Theory This episode includes my third lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers pages 40 to 43 of the book. According to Said’s arch intellectual enemy, Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus at Princeton, the Middle East had deliberately made the collective cultural decision to eschew Western scientific modernism and thus “missed” the Enlightenment at a crucial moment. It is argued that post colonialism is the continuation of colonialism, by where colonies get freedom only from political rule, creating the complex process of self-imposed colonialism. The scrutiny of the “Orient” is linked to imperialism and empire with the Middle East the first and closest territory of conquest. He pointed out that the practice of Western representation of the East, from the “exterior” is done on the assertion that if the East could represent itself it could and since it cannot, the West must do this task of representation. Edward Said – exiled between cultures When people think of Edward Said, the first thing that generally comes to mind is his criticism of Orientalism. [39][40] Afterwards, Said redacted ideas gleaned from the works of the 17th-century philosopher Giambattista Vico, and other intellectuals, in the book Beginnings: Intention and Method (1974), about the theoretical bases of literary criticism. Reading Orientalism: Chapter 1(Pages 40-43)| Edward Said| Postcolonialism| Postcolonial Theory This episode includes my third lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers pages 40 to 43 of the book. For Said, “Orientalism” or the Western construction of the “imaginary Orient” was fashioned by Europeans through practices of writing, which had the effect of representing the Other, the East. It may not have been what Edward Saïd meant, at all, but the term has become a kind of slogan. The technological gap between East and West was signaled by the stunning victory of Napoléon over the Egyptians in 1794 (where his army discovered marijuana. Foucault’s impact can be discerned clearly in traces: the repeated exhortations as to what Said is not saying and the long meandering sentences with endless pauses with semi-colons. The British imbibed the drug as a “medicine” and the Queen herself used hashish for menstrual cramps.). Said, following Foucault, stated that “Orientalism” is a discourse, a whole network of interests. His well-known book, Orientalism was published in 1978 and is probably the often utilized structural analysis of Post-Colonial theory. And to be fair to Edward Said, his starting point is to criticize the deep seeded racism which runs through Western capitalism, and in literature in particular. A Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran. When he established the notion of the “Occident” in opposition to the “Orient”, Said was echoing Georg Hegel and Simon de Beauvoir and using these intellectual sources, Said re-positioned the West as the masculine One to the East’s feminized Other. The European encounter with the alien culture was not only a cultural clash but also a meeting between unequals. [27], In retrospect, being sent far from the Middle East (Egypt) he viewed as a parental decision much influenced by "the prospects of deracinated people, like us the Palestinians, being so uncertain that it would be best to send me as far away as possible. As Foucault stated in Discipline and Punish, to see is to produce knowledge and to have power. Nonetheless, he excelled academically, and achieved the rank of either first (valedictorian) or second (salutatorian) in a class of one hundred sixty students. The East is a European construction that facilitates a very real relationship of power and domination between West and East. Postcolonialism theory fggirls. 30, No. Nevertheless, Said endured political repercussions, such as the cancellation of an invitation to give a lecture to the Freud Society, in Austria, in February 2001. Said's first published book, Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography (1966), was an expansion of the doctoral dissertation he presented to earn the PhD degree. They certainly have no use for the Iraqi opposition that they've been spending many millions of dollars on; and, to the best of my ability to judge, they are going to improvise; of course, the model is Afghanistan. Edward Said made the point that this binary opposition based upon the semiotics of power results in paternalistic or aggressive foreign policy decisions. The Orient is not a fact of nature but an idea that has a history with its own vocabulary and its own imagery. In 1977, he became the Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and subsequently was the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities; and in 1979 was Visiting Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Edward Said and Postcolonial Theory Postcolonial theory investigates the impact of the European conquest upon colonized countries and studies their responses and counter-discourses of resistance to cultural appropriation and imperial domination. He noted that Henry Kissinger based his policy towards the Orient upon the very binary relations that Orientalists had been constructing for centuries. He noted that Henry Kissinger based his policy towards the Orient upon the very binary relations that Orientalists had been constructing for centuries. Europe is powerful and articulate; Asia is defeated and distant. When Said established a literary or discursive  “field” in which “the Orient” is constructed through language and representation, he was following the concepts of Foucault. Few people, except for hard core historians and literary theorists have ventured much beyond his introduction and most readers probably find his later work, Culture and Imperialism (1993) more interesting to read. He noted that Henry Kissinger based his policy towards the Orient upon the very binary relations that Orientalists had been constructing for centuries. These literary characterizations fulfilled two needs, first to justify the domination of one group over the other and second to create an identity for the dominant group. The thesis of Orientalism proposes the existence of a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo–Islamic peoples and their culture", which originates from Western culture's long tradition of false, romanticized images of Asia, in general, and the Middle East, in particular. 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Said, Edward W. Orientalism, 1. Edward Said’s Orientalism and Postcolonial Discourse Tracing the first beginnings of postcolonial studies, the importance of Edward Said can be but overlooked. His assumptions were based upon the supposed superiority of Western—Newtonian—scientific, rational thinking that produced “superior” technological society. It is rather a distribution of geopolitical awareness into aesthetic, scholarly, economic, sociological, historical, and philological texts; it is an elaboration not only of a basic geographical distinction (the world is made up of two unequal halves, Orient and Occident) but also a whole series of “interests” which, by means as scholarly discovery, philological reconstruction, it not only creates but also maintains; it is rather than expresses, a certain will  or intention to understand, in some cases to control, manipulate, even to incorporate,what is a manifestly different (or alternative and novel) world; it is, above all, a discourse that is by no means in direct, corresponding relationship with political power in the raw, but rather is produced and and exists in an uneven exchange with various kinds of power.. Young, Robert J. C. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. This “knowledge” of the Oriental produces “the Oriental”. Postcolonialism Mansa Daby. So far as the United States seems to be concerned, it is only a slight overstatement to say that Moslems and Arabs are essentially seen as either oil suppliers or potential terrorists. [58][59], In the academy, Orientalism became a foundational text of the field of Post-colonial studies, for what the British intellectual Terry Eagleton said is the book's "central truth ... that demeaning images of the East, and imperialist incursions into its terrain, have historically gone hand in hand. [12] He was survived by his wife, Mariam C. Said, his son, Wadie Said, and his daughter, Najla Said. Soon everyone was inhaling and Baudelaire writes under the spell of the weed. Postcolonialism: Edward Said & Gayatri Spivak. 710-727. That said, Michel Foucault’s elaboration on the “discourse” is probably the most important of Said’s intellectual influences. As Foucault pointed out in Madness and Civilization, this Other was constructed through discourse, or non-expressive utterances, that constructed an object to be first written of and then examined and then incarcerated. The disparity was gradual but progressive. In the West, democracy developed within a religion that, even when it when it was the dominant religion, elaborated a distinction between what was God’s and what was Ceasar’s. Dr. Jeanne S. M. Willette and Art History Unstuffed. Postcolonialism susiswo. When he established the notion of the “Occident” in opposition to the “Orient”, Said was echoing Georg Hegel and Simon de Beauvoir and using these intellectual sources, Said re-positioned the West as the masculine One to the East’s feminized Other. Said, following Foucault, stated that “Orientalism” is a discourse, a whole network of interests. Postcolonialism is the critical academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.More specifically, it is a critical theory analysis of the history, culture, literature, and discourse of (usually European) imperial power. Postcolonial literature Said wrote that the Western writers had a strategic location, or a location of power, from which s/he writes texts that become part of a strategic formation or a discourse where the “oriental studies” reside. According to Gramsci certain cultural forms or representational discourses have dominance over others and reflect cultural leadership. [70] The Bulgarian historian Maria Todorova (Imagining the Balkans, 1997) presented the ethnologic concept of Nesting Balkanisms (Ethnologia Balkanica, 1997), which is derived from Milica Bakić–Hayden's concept of Nesting Orientalisms.[71]. The Reception (1873) The Oriental is “irrational, depraved, fallen, childlike, different”, while the European is “rational, virtuous, mature, normal”. Thank you. Edward Said lived long enough to witness September 11th an event that elevated Bernard Lewis to a consultant to the Bush administration. Now the main text which has said to be the originator of this of postcolonialism is a book by Edward Said called “Orientalism” from 1978. Edward Said – exiled between cultures. The language must be created for the Other to be spoken of and for the discourse to be constructed. [email protected]. Said lived his boyhood between the worlds of Cairo and Jerusalem; in 1947, he attended St. George's School, Jerusalem, a British school of stern Anglican Christian cast. As was noted in an earlier post, the European concern with the East can be traced back as far as the religious clash between Christianity and Islam that began in the seventh century and continues today. 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