Talk about Orientalism
Edward Said ' s interview was taken by Sut Jhally about Orientalism. This is very important work of Said about postcolonialism. I have found this 5 important points in the interview. 1 )Orientalism presents our thinking of east. The way to look towards east it is an attitude. Everything is not Orientalism because it was the parameter to look towards west. This is the perspective to look towards east people's life and their culture and their look also. Orientalism tries to get the idea of how do we come to know about that people who are different from other only by their skin color. Orient helps to define yourself. Orient define Europe and Europe define orient. 2)Orient is material foundation. It's not only an imagination. Orient is part of orient material civilization of European culture and civilization. Philosophical order and discourse is aslo Orientalism. Orientalism became an academic now.who is Orientalist now? The person who done philosophy ,who tea...