AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Edward Said, Gender Trouble, Closeted
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Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological (study of being) and epistemological (study of how we acquire an understanding/knowledge) distinction made between the orient" and (most of the time) the occident". The differences between the east and west are at the level of their beings/selves/who they are. Scientific proof, verification feminine irrational modest masculine rational free. Submissive oriental woman and cruel white man. Gallimard is aware, but intrigued by them. Song lets gallimard know that it does not work - gallimard"s desires are problematic, but. Oriental distinction through the east and west. It is rather a distribution of geopolitical awareness into aesthetic, scholarly, economic, sociological, historical and philological texts. Distinction between east and west is a thing used to justify colonialism. Song says he has a fetish - uses fetish to bring him along. Cannot imagine that song could be a man.
