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Feb 12, 2023 · Said shows how Orientalist writings and ideologies actively shape the world they describe, and how they perpetuate views of Middle Eastern people as inferior, subservient, and in need of...
Sep 15, 2023 · Orientalism is a critique of European essentialist representations of the "Orient", which tend to describe other cultures as static and monolithic, rather than ever-changing negotiation processes...
Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978, much academic discourse has begun to use the term 'Orientalism' to refer to a general patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies.
According to Said, in the Middle East, the social, economic, and cultural practices of the ruling Arab elites indicate they are imperial satraps who have internalized a romanticized version of Arab culture created by French and British (and later, American) Orientalists.
Dec 11, 2019 · Orientalist art history propagated a myth of the Middle East and Northern African ('the east') as a romanticised, exotic landscape, albeit one that was undeveloped, primitive and ruled by tyrannical despots. Such images evolved into powerful stereotypes that crossed cultural and national boundaries, and still underpin racist assumptions today.
Feb 18, 2023 · Said shows how Orientalist writings and ideologies actively shape the world they describe, and how they perpetuate views of Middle Eastern people as inferior, subservient, and in need of saving.
Oct 9, 2019 · An important function of Orientalist painting was to create a visual record of places of interest. Such images were aimed at a growing market of Europeans and North Americans who either visited the Middle East and North Africa or were interested in the regions from afar.
