Edward said on Orientalism

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       Here is my task on Orientalism. In this  task  I should watch videoes and also write upon that. This task is given by Dr. Barad sir. This is related with post colonial  that's why it is important to study. So let's discuss it. 

Introduction 

                 Now first we see the definitionof Orientalism.that what  is the meaning.... 

 

The term 'Orient' is derives from the Latin word 'Origins'meaning 'East'. The country of the East especially East Asia study of Orient means a study of orients. The Orient almost a European in invention had been since antiquity of place of romance exotic being hunting memories and landscape remarkable experience.When we study this we study it in context of post - colonial term as well. 

      So sir given us a video which is  about the interview of Edward said and we have to  watch it and reflect here it. You can also here by click. 

Summary of interview

           When we talk about the post colonial so there were so many countries which were ruled by British and France, Portuguese. So the land became  subalaturn they can't raise their voice. And they should do what they poepel tell them to do. So there are so many bad custum. There is Racism, subalaturn, inferiority and superiority. Black skin are not a superior. 

            The central argument of  Orientalism  is that the way that we acquire this knowledge is not innocent or objective but the end result of a process that reflects certain interests. That is, it is highly motivated. Specifically Said argues that the way the West, Europe and the U.S. looks at the countries and peoples of the Middle East is through a lens that distorts the actual reality of those places and those people. 

     Said give his two reasons.One is media press who  printed that  Arabian are cowards and Didn't able to fight. And second reason is his oneself as Arabian.

One great example that I always give is that the wonderful French poet, Gerard de Nerval who went on a voyage to the Orient, as he called it, and I was reading this book of his travels in Syria and there was something very familiar about it. It sounded like something else that I'd read and then I realized that what he was doing almost unconsciously was quoting Lane on the Egyptians. On the theory that the Orientals are all the same no matter where you find them, whether it's in India, or Syria, or in Egypt, it's basically the same assets.

    Here he also talk about Napoleon that, Said identifies Napoleon's conquest of Egypt in 1798 as marking a new kind of imperial and colonial conquest, that inaugurates the project of Orientalism.

        There were two has power one is Britain and another one is France. Britain had a large  imperial place.France had but  gradually he lost its power. Arab was also fought for  independence. First people thought they have no power to  fight but  it is not so and Arab was important because of Oil.  

 

So Edward said take reference of  Gramacy and said that.  Gramsci, in  The  Prison Notebooks, says something that has always tremendously appealed to me, that history deposits in us our own history, our family's history, our nation's history, our tradition's history, which has left in us an infinity of traces, all kinds of marks, you know, through heredity, through collective experience, through individual experience, through family experience, relations between one individual and another, a whole book, if you like, on a series of, an infinity of traces, but there is no inventory, there's no orderly guide to it. So Gramsci says, “Therefore the task at the outset, is to try to compile an inventory."

   Edward said gave his view that he have  been interested in a field called Comparative Literature most all of my adult life and the ideal of Comparative Literature is not to show how English literature is really a secondary phenomenon to French literature or Arabic literature is kind of a poor cousin to Persian literature or any of those silly things, but to show them existing, you might say, as contrapuntal lines, in a great composition by which difference is respected and understood without coercion. And it's that attitude I think that we need.

Conclusion 

           Here I would like to  sum up with to say that we have to  understand everyone not that way that  they are inferior and superior. We are nothing to give someone permission and freedom. But everyone has their own freedom so they have right to  speak and put their view.