Postcolonial Theorists Theorist/Author Books Critical Terms Explanation Edward Said Orientalism (1978) Orientalism Said argued that the West had dominated the East for more than 2,000 years, since the composition of The Persians by Aeschylus. Europe had dominated Asia politically so completely for so long that even the most outwardly objective Western texts on the East were permeated with a bias that even most Western scholars could not recognize. His contention was not only that the West has conquered the East politically but also that Western scholars have appropriated the exploration and interpretation of the Orient’s languages, history and culture for themselves. They have written Asia’s past and constructed its modern identities from a perspective that takes Europe as the norm, from which the “exotic”, “inscrutable” Orient deviates. Said concludes that Western writings about the Orient depict it as an irrational, weak, feminised “Other”, contrasted with the ration...
हिन्दी साहित्य, भाषा-विज्ञान, समाज-विज्ञान, भारतीय संस्कृति और सिनेमा पर प्रामाणिक शोधपरक आलेख। संपादक: डॉ. मनीष कुमार मिश्रा।