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Orientalism reflects not so much a political posture toward the Orient rendered in innumerable oppositional structures but is, rather, a more thoughtful approach that values a dialogue of discourses, reflecting on antithetical denial of and openness to the Other.
Barbra Michalak, head of the Arabic Language Department at the Institute of
Orientalism at the Polish Yagloski University.
I argue that this
Orientalism, where manga are cast as the exoticized Other of American comic books, has been detrimental to the growth of comics in the US for two reasons.
So, in spite of entitling the book Imaging the Chinese, and dedicating entire chapters to the topics of "Cuban Sinophobia" and "
Orientalism," Lopez-Calvo fails to make any mention of the gross caricature of the Chinese detective radio character Chan Li Po, whose popularity during the 1930s was so great that cinemas would interrupt their programs to broadcast the latest episodes live to their audiences.
Ever since the appearance of Edward Said's seminal
Orientalism in 1978, one of his exclusions has triggered the curiosity of the scholarly world.
Students in the Department of Islamic Theology and Philosophy are required to take a course called
Orientalism. Although the definition of
Orientalism was originally understood by Western nations as the study of Asian culture, people and languages, the Palestinian-American academic Edward Said in 1978 reframed the term as biased and based on false assumptions.
Ironically, the enormous success of Edward Said's
Orientalism, his devastating critiquing of the West's hegemonic discourse on the 'Orient,' has deflected attention from the recrudescence of a native
Orientalism in much of the Periphery in the last few decades.
This essay tracks the ways in which speaking spaces and subject positions are (in)formed by the union of
Orientalism and whiteness.
Meanwhile, Chinese intellectuals and cultural/film critics have employed Western theories, such as
Orientalism, postcolonialism, and postmodernism, to interpret Chinese cinema, and they claim that the images of China and the meanings of Chinese culture have been distorted and commodified to satisfy "foreigners." In other words, they feel the Fifth-Generation films give an "inaccurate" picture of China.
In 1978, he wrote the hugely influential book
Orientalism, in which he demonstrated how Western writers have been concocting distorted views of Eastern cultures, especially ever since the 18th century.
The curators will explore the concept of
Orientalism, the representation of the East in Western artistic depictions, where fantasy and reality were often blurred.