What is orientalism

1. Topic : Orientalism. Name : Makwana Ankita m. Paper No :12 Roll No :1 Year :2013-14 Semester : 3 Guidance : by Department of English

2. What is Orientalism. The term ‘Orient’ is derives from the Latin word ‘oriens’meaning ‘East’. The country of the east especially East Asia. Study of orient means a study of orients. The orient almost a European invention, had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experience.

3. Map of The Oriental People

4. The methodological problems.

5. Historically and materially. The orient is not just mind but also material. Materiality of governance, materiality of Education….. According to Foucault “It is a discourse”. Because the orient ideas is not free. The orient politically, sociologically militarily, ideologically, during the post-Enlightenment period.

6. Academic. The interchange between the academic and the more or less imaginative meaning of orientalism is a constant one, and since the late eighteenth century there has been a considerable, quite disciplined perhaps even regulated traffic between two.

7. Different between orient and occident. Orient derives from the Latin word Oriens and it means ‘East’. The opposite term ‘Occident’ derives from the Latin word ‘Occidens’, meaning ‘West’. It is a literary and formal word for Western. The relationship between Orient and Occident and is a relationship of power and domination.

8. Reasonable Qualification. In the first place it would be wrong to conclude that the orient was essentially an idea or a creation with no corresponding reality. A second qualification is that ideas, culture, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configuration of power, also being studied.

9. The structure of orient is nothing more than a structure of lies or the myths which, were the truth about them to be told , would simply blow away. Orientalism as a system of knowledge about Orient, an accepted grid for filtering through the Orient into Western consciousness, just as that same investment multiplied indeed made truly productive the statements profiling out from Orientalism into the general culture.

10. Three aspects of contemporary reality.

11. The distinction between pure and political It is a very easy to argue that knowledge about Shakespeare or Wordsworth is not political whereas knowledge about contemporary China or the Soviet Union is. West is that it be nonpolitical, that scholarly, academic, impartial. The Orientalism is not a mere political subject matter or field that is reflected passively by culture, scholarship, or institutions ; nor it is a representative and expressive of some nefarious “western” imperialist plot to hold down the “Oriental” world.

12. The methodological question The Anglo-French-American experience of the Arab and Islam , which for almost a thousand years together stood for the Orient. Immediately upon doing that a , large part of the Orient seemed to have been eliminated-India, Japan, china and other sections of the Far East- not because these regions were not important but because one could discuss Europe's experience of the Near Orient, or of Islam, apart from its experience of the Far Orient

13. The personal dimension. In the Prison Notebooks Gramsci says: “The starting point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is Knowing thyself as a product of the historical process to date…..” Much of the personal investment in this study derives from my awareness of being an “Oriental "as a child growing up in two British colonies.

14. Conclusion In short Orientalism is not just large collection of texts . It is not political subject matter. The corporate institution for dealing with the Orient.. Dealing it by making statement about it, authority view of it, by teaching it, ruling over it.