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Orientalism



1. What is Orientalism?

According to Said, Orientalism is not an imagination. But it is material thing and genuine theory. Orientalism revolutionalised the study of middle East and also useful to study post colonialism and other disciplines like history, Anthropology, Political Science and Culture Studies.


People and Religion

We had a preconceived notion of what kind of people lived there, what they believed,  how they act and also we can understand the concept of colored peoples. Here, Said is Talking about the Eastern world like Palestine, Egypt and their condition after colonialism. We can see the condition of Palestinian  after the occupation of Jew people, they immigrated from their homeland to other countries because of Forcefully occupation of Israel. So, we can understand the concept of "Imaginary Homeland" through Palestinian.

Said talked about stereo type Eastern countries in this interview. He told that America always looked at Eastern countries as  terrorist countries. Their media also portraying Eastern people as barbaric in their T.V program and news. So, this kind of stereotypical perspective is very dangerous for the Eastern countries.


Said differentiate the Imperialists like France, America and Europe and he said that French imperialism was very different than Europe and America in this interview. Then he said that French did not invade  like Spaniard invade the new world, looking for a loot. But Nepolian invaded Egypt for the survey of Egypt while Europe invaded the new world looking for loot and also America looted many Easter countries because of the oil through the arm force.
The issue of Palestinian 

Said talked about the issue of Palestine, the condition of the people there, they have not their mother land because of the forcefully occupation by Israel. From 1948 to present time Palestinian were suffering a lot for the peace and their homeland but Western countries did not take any kind of action on this issue. We also can say that why Europe and America built a new state for Jew people surrounding Islamic countries, if they had love for Jew people then why they vanished jew from Europe. So, Said explained this issue through cultural, religious and political views.


 It has a very good view to look at any kind of issue, language, Religion, Literature In contrapuntal line, we can say every thing has binary opposition. So, Said said that we have to look from both side but we can not judge anything from one side like blind people portrayed elephant from one angle.

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