Orientalism-Concept a Brief Study
Orientalism-Concept a Brief Study
Briefly mention the concept of Orientalism.Orientalism-Concept a Brief Study
Orientalism: Orientalism is the process by which "the Orient" was constructed as an exotic other by European studies and culture. Orientalism is not so much a true study of other cultures as it is broad Western generalization about Oriental, Islamic, and Asian cultures that tends to corrode and ignore their large differences. It is the imitation or portrayal of aspects in the Eastern world. These portrayals are frequently done by writers, creators, and artists from the West."Orientalism” is a way of sighted that pictures, stresses, overstates and twists changes of Arab peoples and values as associated to that of Europe and the U.S. It often includes seeing Arab nation as unusual, backward, isolated, and at times unsafe. Edward W. Said, in famous book, Orientalism, well-defined it as the receiving in the West of “the basic distinction between East and West as the starting point for elaborate theories, novels, social descriptions, epics, and political accounts concerning the Orient, its people, customs, ‘mind,’ destiny and so on.” Orientalism-Concept a Brief Study
Edward Said narrated;
Orientalism dates from the period of European Illumination and settlement of
the Arab World. Orientalism provided a rationalization for European colonization based on a self-serving history in which “the West” built “the East” as very unalike and mediocre, and therefore in need of Western
intervention or “rescue”.
Examples of early Orientalism can be
seen in European landscapes and snapshots and also in pictures from the World’s Fair in the U.S. in the 19th & early 20th
periods.
The landscapes, generated
by European artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, portray the Arab
World as an unusual and enigmatic place of sand, harems and belly dancers,
reflecting a
long history of Orientalist imaginations which have sustained to permeate our modern
popular culture.
France colonized Algeria from 1830
to 1962. From coarsely 1900 to 1930, French tycoons
produced cards of Algerian women that were disseminated in France. While
Algerian women are depicted in these prints as if the camera is taking a real
moment in their everyday lives, the women are actually set up in the
photographer’s studio.
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