COMP-LIT 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Turkish Bath, The Tortoise Trainer, Osman Hamdi Bey
31 Jan 2017
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Comp lit 141: good and evil; east and west. Orientalism background: edward said (1936-2003) made the general scope. Palestinian american literary theorist and advocate for palestinian rights. It is the end result that is highly motivated. Us looks at the middle east through a lense that distorts the people into a threatening appearance. Said made this connection from his own disparity of who he is and: gurses" definition the perceived notions in art, history, etc. Specific field of study through which information of the orient (east. Motivated by the west"s desire to create an other that is viewed as almost opposite from the west rational/irrational, order/chaos, mind/body. Orient signifies a system of representation that brought the orient into west learning, west consciousness and west empire. Orient exists for the west and is constructed by an in relation to the west. It is a mirror image of what is inferior and alien (other) to the west.
