Orientalism & the Other in Modern History
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"...Orientalism was a worldview that imagined, emphasized, exaggerated, and distorted the differences between Asian and North African people as compared to the people of Europe and the United States. Said argues that Europe constructed the so-called Orient, or the East, by which he meant the people of Asia and North Africa, in ways that presented the so-called Orient as exotic, backwards, uncivilized, and at times dangerous...."
Key Terms
- One/Other Split
- Orientalism
- Edward Said & Orientalism
- Tribalism
- "The Other"
- Discourse
- Paradigm
- Orient / Occident
- "The West and the Rest"
- Orientalism in Art
- France
- Algeria
- Malek Alloula - The Colonial Harem
Guided Viewing Questions
- How do concepts of "the other" shape modern society? What are some examples of the consequences of the one/other split?
- What role did racial hierarchies and concepts of “the other” play in the Imperial project?
- What are examples of orientalism in literature? Architecture? Art?
- What is meant by the term “orientalism?”
- According to Malek Alloula, how did the postcards of Algerian women both reflect and shape European understandings of North Africa and the French imperial project?