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Your rating has been recorded. Write a review Rate this item: 1 2 3 4 5. Preview this item Preview this item. Orientalism is the example Mr. Said uses, and by it he means something precise. The scholar who studies the Orient and specifically the Muslim Orient , the imaginitive writer who takes it as his subject, and the institutions which have been concerned with teaching it, settling it, ruling it, all have a certain representation or idea of the Orient defined as being other than the Occident, mysterious, unchanging and ultimately inferior.
Read more Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. In his early writings, he faithfully absorbed all the trends then dominant in English departments, from existentialism to structuralism.
Devoted to Chopin and Schumann, he seems to have been as indifferent to blues and jazz as he was to Arabic music. He adored Hollywood movies, but there is no evidence that, in this period, he engaged with the work of James Baldwin or Ralph Ellison, or had much interest in the civil-rights movement. When students protesting the war in Vietnam disrupted a class of his, he called campus security. Among aspiring intellectuals who came to the U.
Moreover, the steep price of that ignorance was paid, often in blood, by the people back home. He began reaching out to other Arabs and methodically studying Western writings about the Middle East.
It was also by no means original. Noam Chomsky had been making much the same argument since the nineteen-sixties, and anti-imperialist thinkers and activists had long noted the nexus between knowledge and power in imperialist countries. Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, in the late nineteenth century, had denounced Reuters for its biased coverage of anti-British protests in Iran; Simone Weil had called for a sustained reflection on the experience of the colonized.
It was also striking that Said, avowedly indebted to Foucault, concerned himself with representations rather than with the represented—with the discourse of imperialism rather than with its actual workings or its manifestation in social and economic inequality.
Nor did Said confine his time frame to the previous two centuries, when the modern imperialisms of Europe and America became globally powerful, primed to generate widespread if largely defective knowledge about Orientals. Said was much more vulnerable to criticisms from the Oriental subjects whose debasing misrepresentations he had set out to expose. The most devastating of these came from the Indian critic Aijaz Ahmad. Politicized young people today are unlikely to confine themselves to Foucault-style discourse analysis when they confront the crushing realities of inequality, gutted public services, mainstream racism, and environmental calamity.
Said moved on from his trendsetting book almost as quickly as he had moved on from the various English-department trends he once embraced. Having helped create the field of post-colonial studies, Said began to wonder whether post-colonialism was even a valid category, given the ongoing depredations of colonialism in large parts of the world.
Most important, in a series of books, articles, and television appearances, Said assumed the often cruelly discouraging task of educating Americans about Palestine.
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