CMM1113 Lecture 6: CM1113-weekly readings orientalism

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5 Jun 2018

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CM1113

Weekly readings: ORIENTALISM

INTRODUCTION

• The Orient was almost a European invention and had been snice antiquity a place of

romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it

was disappearing.

• Americans will not feel the same about the orient, which for them is much more likely to be

associated very differently with the far east (China and Japan mainly.)

• Unlike the Americans, the British and the French have had a long tradition of what they call

Orientalism, a way of oig to ters with Oriet that is ased o the Oriet’s speial plae

in the European Western experience.

• The oriet is the plae of Europe’s greatest, rihest ad oldest oloies. the soure of its

civilizations and languages.

• Orientalism expresses and represents that part culturally and ideologically as a mode of

discourse with supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship, imagery etc...

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