Orientalism

from the two angles: firstly, how the West dominates and portrays Muslims as uncivilized, barbaric people, but at the same time how the Muslims themselves do not want any changes that (they believe) have something to do with the Western culture. Orientalism. The West has produced a discourse representing the world as dichotomy of the ‘West’ versus the ‘Rest’. Some discursive strategies resulted in the stereotyping process…

the view of Edward Said of the ‘Occident’s’ representation of the ‘Orient’, Burton as discussed by Bratlinger, states that many critics have faulted Edward Said’s Orientalism as “painting too negative and too literary a picture of western ‘discursive’ picture constructions of ‘the Orient’(Bratlinger 56). Mackenzie in opposing the Orientalism views, argues that “ By creating a monolithic and binary vision of the past they [postcolonialists] have too often damaged those…

2- Discuss the significance of the veil in Orientalism. Since the Western society came in contact with the Oriental countries, the Western people always tried to explain the traditions and customs of the Eastern culture. Thus, the Western preoccupation with the difference has evolved into the concept of Orientalism. With regard to this, Edward Said reveals the irrationality of the Western perspective and their approach to a differing culture as if the Eastern culture is completely opposed to the…

From China to Europe, or from the East to the West, the distance is not a problem any more for learning another culture in the contemporary world. Nevertheless, between different cultures, there are still invisible gaps – stereotypes and “Othering”. The stereotypical representations of the “Other” can still be found in our daily life, in news media, in many films and TV products. The representation of China and Chinese people in the West, for example, is reduced to a few stereotypes from the…

It is shaped by gender as well as Orientalism, and feminist and postcolonial IR should be used in tandem to fight against the suppression of guilt for atrocities committed against faceless, nameless other. Gender policing has marked compassion as a sign of femininity, the ultimate weakness…

However, this is a vicious example of Orientalism. Guests of the Sheik displayed that the Muslim women accounted for are complex, empowered human beings in their own right. They have their own issues, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and passions. In a video we watched in class, many Muslim women were…

superiority was the main idea of the theorist Edward Said’s work called as Orientalism. To him, Orientalism is that the West impose their ideas and cultures to the East to reshape it: ‘’Orientalism can be discussed and analysed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient -dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short. Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having…

glimpsed through her surviving letters and portraits. One key means of cultural interaction and perhaps transgression is Montagu’s affection of Ottoman dress, her status permitting her to engage in a form of ethnomasquarade. In his book Fashion and Orientalism, Adam Geczy provides a comprehensive survey of European efforts to appropriate and occasionally assimilate Oriental costume, indicating the origins of Turkish inspired dress lie in the masquerade tradition of southern European courts.…

This can coincide with Edward Said’s Orientalism but can further examine the notion of ‘revolt’ amongst Indigenous Australians. In the building campaign for constitutional recognition of Indigenous people, moving away from treating Indigenous people as a race must be replaced with the idea of…

beyond the fashion statement of the moment” (Durham 202). Durham centralized her paper in explaining the damage that is done by using Indian female customs in the west as a form of merchandise. For capitalist reasons, Durham argues that concepts of Orientalism are used for advertising. Any product that comes from the “Orient represent[s] a sinful, luxurious world that... [is] harnessed to consumerism in the pursuit of femininity” (Durham 206). In, short the cultural appropriation of these…