Vol. 16, Issue 1, Jul-Dec 2023
Page: 72-82
CULTURE, POWER AND DISCOURSE: ENGAGING WITH THE DISCOURSE OF ORIENTALISM
Dr Prabin Sinha
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Edward Said considers all writings in the diverse fields of history, fiction, sociology, anthropology and political theory under the rubric of Orientalism. He considers Orientalism as a discourse in the Foucauldian mould and says that without considering Orientalism as a discourse, it would be impossible to understand the systematic way in which Europe managed its other, that is the Orient. He quotes extensively from literature, history and sociology to establish that the West created the Orient according to certain rules characteristic to Orientalism. Said says that all the writers, thinkers and philosophers who wrote about the Orient, wrote with the basic assumptions that there was an Orient which was different from Europe and Said finds this notion ubiquitous in all Western thoughts.
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- Said, Edward W. (1983) The World, the Text and the Critic, Cambridge, Harvard University Press. P.10
- Ibid, p. 11.
- Merquoir, J.G. 1991 Foucault, second edition, Fontana Press, Harper Collins, Hammersmith, London. p. 81.
- Ibid, p. 85.
- Ibid, p. 146.
- Said, Edward W. (1994) Representations of the Intellectual, Pantheon, New York. p. 21.
- Merquoir, J.G. 1991 Foucault, second edition, Fontana Press, Harper Collins, Hammersmith, London. p. 110.
- Ibid, p. 110.
- Said, Edward W. (1983) The World, the Text and the Critic, Cambridge, Harvard University Press. p. 47.
- Burton, Frank and Carlen, Pat. 1979, Official Discourse: On Discourse Analysis, Government Publications, Ideology and the State, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. p. 45.
- Ibid, 47.
- Ibid, 46.
- Vishwanathan, Gauri, “The Beginnings of English Literary Studies in British India”, in The Oxford Literary Review, Vol. 9 no. 1. p. 04.
- Said, Edward, W. (1979). Orientalism, Vintage, New York. p. 03.
