Said's Orientalism

PDF version of Edward Said's Orientalism

This is a PDF version of Edward Said's book, Orientalism, where Said explains his theory in great detail.

Orientalism is “a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Oriental’s special place in European Western experience” because the Orient is the place of some of Europe’s oldest and richest colonies and is one of Europe’s “most recurring images of the Other” (Said 1).

Essentially, Orientalism was “a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, West, "us") and the strange (the Orient, the East, "them")” (Said 44).

The transcript of the film "Edward Said: On 'Orientalism'"
Featuring an interview with Edward Said Professor, Columbia University and author of Orientalism

JRLAMP - Edward Said On 'Orientalism'

YouTube video of Said explaining his book, Orientalism.

This is the transcript for the video on how Said became interested in Orientalism, what Orientalism is about, and what Orientalism is today in America versus Europe.

JRLAMP - An Introduction to Edward Said, Orientalism, and Postcolonial Literary Studies

Professor Signh gives a description of Said's Oreintalism

Amardeep Singh, Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University, gives a brief and understandable summary of Orientalism.