Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. Orientalism » Edward Said Orientalism Orientalism is a cultural and political phenomenon and not just an empty abstraction. Firstly in Orientalism, Said predominantly analyses 18th-19th Century Orientalist academic writing, which in the West has given anyone who reads such works a particular and supposedly. the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. I emphasize in it my Orientalism accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer Orientalism, p.21, Vintage 126 Copy quote Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

Said en 1978, a través del cual el autor estableció por primera vez el término 'Orientalismo': un concepto crítico que describe la forma en que Occidente elabora una representación reduccionista de Oriente (las sociedades y pueblos de Asia, África del Norte y Oriente Medio). The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author Orientalismo es un libro escrito por Edward W.

Orientalism by Edward W. Said