复旦大学：《西方美学经典导读》PPT教学课件_OUT OF PLACE In SAID’s whole life - Orientalism

OUT OF PLACE In SAID's Whole life EDWARD W. SAID OUT PLACE

1 OUT OF PLACE In SAID’s whole life

Orientalism ◆ EDWARD SAID1977 ORIENTALISM AS DISCOURSE orientalism ORIENTALISM AS DISCIPLINE Main themes of orientalism Exotic east EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST The Twins Shall Never Meet White mans BURDEN/MISSION

2 Orientalism  EDWARD SAID 1977 ORIENTALISM AS DISCOURSE ORIENTALISM AS DISCIPLINE * Main Themes of Orientalism Exotic east EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST The Twins Shall Never Meet White man’s BURDEN/MISSION

Between the years 1979 through 1981 hundreds of articles have been written about orientalism In 2000, Eddie Yeghiayan, the special Collections Librarian of University of California Irvine, compiled a list of reviews on Orientalism 32% of the essays were From Political Science and historical Journals .32% were from Academic journals 25% from Newspaper articles 10% from Literary Journals ◆1% from other sources

3 Between the years 1979 through 1981 hundreds of articles have been written about Orientalism.  In 2000, Eddie Yeghiayan, the Special Collections Librarian of University of California Irvine, compiled a list of reviews on Orientalism.  32% of the essays were From Political Science and Historical Journals.  32% were from Academic Journals.  25% from Newspaper articles.  10% from Literary Journals.  1% from other sources

Orientalism was such a controversial essay that it was able to impact many different thought genres after the first couple years of its publication Orientalism exercises power and has authority over the Orient Orientalism produces and manages the Orient

4 Orientalism was such a controversial essay that it was able to impact many different thought genres after the first couple years of its publication.  Orientalism exercises power and has authority over the Orient  Orientalism produces and manages the Orient

The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences o the main thing for the European visitor was a European representation of the Orient and its contemporary fate

5  The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences.  the main thing for the European visitor was a European representation of the Orient and its contemporary fate

the other the Orient has helped to define Europe(or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience. Yet none of this Orient is merely imaginative the vastly expanded American political and economic role in the Near East(the Middle East) makes great claims on our understanding of that Orient

6 the Other  the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience.  Yet none of this Orient is merely imaginative.  the vastly expanded American political and economic role in the Near East (the Middle East) makes great claims on our understanding of that Orient

the methodological problems ◆ academic ◆ imaginative meanings historically and materially Foucault's notion of a discourse because of orientalism the Orient was not(and is not) a free subject of thought or action

7 the methodological problems  academic  imaginative meanings  historically and materially Foucault's notion of a discourse because of Orientalism the Orient was not (and is not) a free subject of thought or action

Orientalism derives from British and French cultural enter-pris From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of world War Ii france and britain dominated the Orient and Orientalism since World War II America has dominated the Orient it always demonstrates the comparatively greater strength of the Occident(British, French, or American)

8 Orientalism derives from …  British and French cultural enter-pris …  From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of World War II France and Britain dominated the Orient and Orientalism  since World War II America has dominated the Orient  it always demonstrates the comparatively greater strength of the Occident (British, French, or American)

a different methodological alternative o the set of historical generalizations assumption the orient is not an inert fact of nature

9 a different methodological alternative  the set of historical generalizations  assumption the Orient is not an inert fact of nature

reasonable qualIfications o it would be wrong to conclude that the Orient was essentially an idea, or a creation with no corresponding reality ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force or more precisely their configurations of power One ought never to assume that the structure of Orientalism is nothing more than a structure of lies or of myths 10

10 reasonable qualifications  it would be wrong to conclude that the Orient was essentially an idea, or a creation with no corresponding reality.  ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power  One ought never to assume that the structure of Orientalism is nothing more than a structure of lies or of myths