The Scope of Orientalism and Knowing the Orienta
I need a full three pages summary of the (The Scope of Orientalism and Knowing the Oriental) form the article “Orientalism” by Edward Said with three main quotations from the article.
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Orientalism, by Edward Said, starts by acknowledging the fact that the Orient played a significant role in the building of the culture of Europe ( Al-shamiri & Sprinker, (2016). “The Orient has helped to define Europe as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience” (page 1-2). In his book, Said has researched on Orientalism ( Varisco, (2017), which he apprehends how the Orient in the Western culture, science and politics are represented. Americans feel different about Orient, which to them it is likely to be associated in a different way with the Far East (China and Japan). Orient is a place where…
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