Travel Criticism In Edith Wharton's Orientalism

This paper deals with the travel narratives and to what extent they fall in the category of Orientalist discourse, that Edward Said criticizes. Basically on the way travel narratives have described the Middle East and to what extent they were partial to the origins as Easterners. Edward Said states his interest on the Orientalism when he discovered the big difference between the Middle East where he lived and grew and the image of the Middle East in the eyes of the Eastern. Before he used the term of Orientalism in his book Orientalism, it was used generally by western Scientists and Historians, especially when it comes to the study of the East within the academic field. However, after the publish of his book this term became a sigh …show more content…
basically she sees that now Morocco will get the chance to follow modernity. This will take as back to the main point wich is the disdain look of the oxidant toward the orient. As Edward Said said on his Book Orientalism that on the eyes of the western the orient were uncivilized people, therefore they said that since they were the ‘refined’ race it was their duty to civilize these people and in order to achieve their goals they had to colonize and rule the …show more content…
She expresses her admiration for the images that can not be found in Europe. the ''Europeless’’ interior is wild, dark, bizarre and of course authentic. It seems that she is enjoying her Orientalist view to Morocco as for her ‘the dark tunnels represents the real Moghreb’. This takes us back to one of the points that Edward Said criticizes in The Orientalism which is that the european used the Orient to defined themselves. What ever is the Orients it is not them. For example qualities, such as uncivilized, irrational and laziness were related to the orientals therefore the europeans should be civilized , rational and active. Which make wharton’s comments based on her occident root and her oriental