Orientalism

Edward Said's Orientalism

  • Orientalism form of representing, studying and knowing the East that turns it into the West's other

Saud: self vs. other - occident vs. orient

  • Creation of group's identity by othering: Orient as Western construct, projection of fears and desires on the Orient

  • Orient as West's other

  • Autostereotypes (positive stereotypes about own culture) and heterostereotypes (negative stereotypes about different cultures)

  • Opposition between self/identity and other/alterity