ORIENTALISM 101

Why did Edward Said write Orientalism?

• To expose the behaviors and attitudes of the Western Orientalists

• To expose the behaviors and attitudes of the Eastern Orientalists

• To pass his PhD degree

• To narrate the history of colonialism

What is not a lesson from Orientalism?

• Forms of prejudice and stereotypes can become institutionalized, taught and learned.

• Western scholars created historical studies as a discipline.

• The natives cannot represent themselves

• Perceptions can be assumed as official truths even when they are not objectively true

What did the Orientalist do, according to Edward Said?

• Wrote the history of oriental natives objectively

• Conquer the natives and made them slaves

• Exoticise the orientals

• Convert them into their religion

How was Islam labelled by the Orientalists?

• Mohammedanism

• Muslims

• Sunnism

• Shiism

What is the 'poetics of space' written by Gaston Bachelard?

• Science of the concrete in which the mind has to make objects familiar and orderly by terming everything according to its classification.

• The meaning of space is interpreted with an imaginative value by the emotional and rational sense of ones' mind.

• The poems can be written about places

• Orientalizing the orient

What is the title of the book that Edward Said wrote?

• Orientalizing the orient

• Orientalism

• Oriental

• Imaginative Geography

Why should we care about Orientalism?

• Because Orientalism seeps into the modern culture

• Because those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it

• Because the current world has been constructed by the colonial past

• Because Orientalism teaches us that western values are great examples

What did Orientalists produce in the Orient?

• Novels

• Historical texts

• Poems

• Technology

What is imaginative knowledge?

• Knowledge about the objective truth about something

• Knowledge of the poetics of space which caters to the dream

• Knowledge which represents the orients based upon creations

• Knowledge that is constructed based upon assumptions

Is Orientalism dead?

• Hard to say

• No

• Yes

• It was dead a long timea go