orientalism
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- noun
- /ˌɔːrɪˈɛntəlɪzəm/
- Formal
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orientalismo
- Keywords: America, internal orientalism, national identity, regional identity, U.S. South, United States.
- sentimental orientalism
- internal orientalism
- discourse of orientalism
It's not the exoticized other of, of Orientalism.
- It's not the exoticized other of, of Orientalism.
Examples
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As Edward Said observes in Orientalism, Western civilization has consistently amassed information about its various Others in order to control them.
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Orientalism created an image of the Orient as separate, backward, silently different, irrational, and passive.
Academic text (2007) -
In part, that is because existing knowledge sometimes looks like a form of orientalism, or it fails to operationalize ethnicity/race in a useful way.
Academic text (2007) -
And I guess I feel a little bit frustrated and even offended by the show because because like, I still see orientalism in the costume design.
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As such, these articles are informed by the discourse of internal orientalism (Jansson 2003).
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Thus, for Nash, Urquhart stands as a 'discursive instability within Orientalism.'
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The Robber Bride plays out a number of tensions, including exoticism and orientalism, currently being articulated by postcolonial theorists.
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The museum displayed a collection of paintings that showcased the beauty of orientalism in Western art.
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Many scholars debate the influence of orientalism on how Asian cultures are represented in literature.
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The fashion designer drew inspiration from orientalism to create a new line that reflects Asian aesthetic traditions.
How Orientalist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Orientalism comes from orient, meaning 'east', and the ending -ism, which marks a 'way of thinking' or a style. So orientalism names the particular style and set of ideas by which Western artists, writers, and scholars have shown the East and its people.