In order to let the Oriental reacquire its cultural discourse right, restoring its national culture’s reasonable position in the world, Said has queried the purity of the western culture or discourse which consider everything concerning Orient as inferior and marginal: “My principal aim is not to separate but to connect, and I am interested in this for the main philosophical and methodological reason that cultural forms are hybrid, mixed, impure” (14). “Far from being unitary or monolithic or autonomous things,” he continues to clarify, “cultures actually assume more ‘foreign’ elements, alterities, differences, than they consciously exclude” (15). With the contact between Western and Eastern culture, the supposed boundary within them has gradually been vague, and thus Western culture loses its purity on the basis of which it advertises its superiority and advancement. This hybrid cultural view is rightly similar to what Bhabha puts forward in “Signs Taken for Wonders: The Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May1817”—the concept of hybridity. In it, Bhabha, by applying some theories from many theorists, M. Bakhtin, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault in particular, has successfully demonstrated that hybridity exists in the colonial authoritative discourse and the possibility of resistance it brings
In order to let the Oriental reacquire its cultural discourse right, restoring its national culture’s reasonable position in the world, Said has queried the purity of the western culture or discourse which consider everything concerning Orient as inferior and marginal: “My principal aim is not to separate but to connect, and I am interested in this for the main philosophical and methodological reason that cultural forms are hybrid, mixed, impure” (14). “Far from being unitary or monolithic or autonomous things,” he continues to clarify, “cultures actually assume more ‘foreign’ elements, alterities, differences, than they consciously exclude” (15). With the contact between Western and Eastern culture, the supposed boundary within them has gradually been vague, and thus Western culture loses its purity on the basis of which it advertises its superiority and advancement. This hybrid cultural view is rightly similar to what Bhabha puts forward in “Signs Taken for Wonders: The Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May1817”—the concept of hybridity. In it, Bhabha, by applying some theories from many theorists, M. Bakhtin, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault in particular, has successfully demonstrated that hybridity exists in the colonial authoritative discourse and the possibility of resistance it brings