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Study on the Thought of Edward Said

Author: MaYuanXiong
Tutor: DuNing
School: Lanzhou University
Course: Literature and Art
Keywords: Said Orientalism Identity Construction Hybrid perspective
CLC: D091
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


Said set of academic research and political concern in one, a good example in the field of humanities effects, is recognized as important founders of the post-colonial theory, contemporary American critics, occupies a unique position in contemporary criticism. In the United States, he is a critic of the \He humanist values ??and traditions, theory and cultural politics. He is a landmark class character of the post-colonial criticism, the postcolonial criticism always been concerned about an important dimension of political criticism, the departure from this dimension, Said special attention to the relationship between political and social consciousness and literature or the arts. This article discusses Said's ideological and theoretical. Papers related to the following aspects: Said's Orientalism ideological construct; Third World people's identity; hybrid cultural point of view. \Epoch-making significance, became a landmark book. It was also seen as the contemporary Empire iconic works. Contains a wealth of Oriental Studies, deposited centuries the material aspects of embedded. The Oriental concept is derived from the language, through the interpretation of history became more complex, the construction of objects. Oriental Studies of the mode of discourse of power and the formation of a politics, culture, ethics, knowledge and power exchange. Meaning and understanding the nature of Orientalism, help us to critically assimilate the heterogeneity Western culture, the idea of ??the status of Third World cultural values. Said that human identity is not a natural, stable, and the construction of identity is largely a man-made historical, social, academic and political processes, often close to the operation of the power when it comes to human identity, Relevance. Treat the mode of traditional eastern and western cultures binary opposition and nationalist stance, Said that all ideas and theories, its contents, order and structure are not immutable, is not monolithic, but with context changing. More attention theory manifested in the specific context of the specific meaning, as well as the difference of the same theory of meaning in different contexts. Thus, Said \rather than simply take rejection, negative logic, and thus establish a positive and healthy concept of national culture. Because in Said's view, is really intellectuals in a broad charitable spirit attitude, beyond narrow national boundaries, and strive to build an equal and harmonious culture of all mankind.

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