CHN 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Albert Eckhout, Image Song, Edward Said
11 Jan 2016
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Orientalism how the western world perceives the orient ( asian culture) Book was first published in 1978 after a series of wars and the price of oil raised in the middle east. Born in jerusalem and grew up in cairo, later on he was educated in the states. How peoples see the orient, particularly forcing on islam. Muslims are villains and many films use muslims end up as bodies. We know ourselves threw others i. e. we are civilized they are not, helps identify oneself are mutually dependent one cannot exist without the other ex. Slaves and slave owners applying it to orientalism power and domination come into play latent logic- perceptions and knowledge. Impression of the background gives info of a palace or a mosque and people in background looks stern but people in front look weaker. Primitive and savage imagery, logic there means they should be tamed and civilized.
