2006-08-03 11:43:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
I'm just disgusted that he cut and pasted that answer without ever having read Edward Said. uggh.
2006-08-03 13:03:53 · answer #1 · answered by Gumdrop Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient's special place in European Western experience." (p. 1)
"a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between 'the Orient' and (most of the time) 'the Occident'." (2)
"A Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient." (3)
"...particularly valuable as a sign of European-Atlantic power over the Orient than it is as a veridic discourse about the Orient." (6)
"A distribution of geopolitical awareness into aesthetic, scholarly, economic, sociological, historical, and philological texts." (12)
2006-08-03 18:58:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋