Orientalism

A Presentation on…

Presented By :

Jani Amita C.

[M.A. Sem – III ]

Key Concept

What is Orientalism?

Game of Power

Cross-culture Discourse

Fix Mindset

Material Evidence

The Europeans Divides World into Two Parts

Power Relationship

West East

Occident Orient

Us Other

Familiar Stranger

Civilized Uncivilized

Superior Compare to Orient

Active Passive

Subject Object

Observers Observed

Colonized Colonizer

White Black

Metropolitan Colonial Societies

Conclusion

The best summary of the Orientalist mindset

would probably be : “East is east and West is

west, and never the twain shall meet..”

- Rudyard Kipling

Thanks to the Department of

English