Abstract: Edward Said defines Orientalism as ‘a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between “the Orient” and “the Occident”’.<sup>1</sup> The literature thus produced takes the distinction between East and West/Orient and Occident as the dividing line between Orientalism and Occidentalism. While in Said’s view ‘Orientalism derives from a particular closeness experienced between Britain and France and the Orient,’...
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-07-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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