Crossword-Solution: ORIENTALISM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orientalism | n. | Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people. |
| Orientalism | n. | Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ORIENTALISM | anagram | ELIMINATORS |
We have 2 clues for the answer “ORIENTALISM”
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| Seminal Edward Said book on representation of "the East" | 1 answer |
| something (as a style or manner) associated with or characteristic of Asia or Asians | 1 answer |
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Sentences with ORIENTALISM (5)
That is love, and only with this weapon is feminine education successfully carried forward.” Tolstoy, in fact, betrayed a touch of orientalism in his attitude towards women.
Several were pointed out to me as artists who had gone one better than anybody else, and a vast billowy creature was described as the leader of the new Orientalism in England.
The whole history of these arts in Europe is the record of the struggle between Orientalism, with its frank rejection of imitation, its love of artistic convention, its dislike to the actual representation of any object in Nature, and our own imitative spirit.
Yet the genius of Plato and Greek philosophy reacted upon the East, and a Greek element of thought and language overlaid and partly reduced to order the chaos of Orientalism.
That we have Imperialism in all our clubs at the very time when we have Orientalism in all our drawing-rooms.
Quotes with ORIENTALISM (3)
... the very appearance of the word ‘‘oriental’’ as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers alarm bells for any American academic. The late Edward Said’s Orientalism argued that the word ‘‘oriental’’ is a fundamentally pejorative term for certain parts of the non-Western world, not only indicating that they are inferior but also justifying Western colonization or domination of them.
My identity as Jewish cannot be reduced to a religious affiliation. Professor Said quoted Gramsci, an author that I’m familiar with, that, and I quote, ‘to know thyself is to understand that we are a product of the historical process to date which has deposited an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory’. Let’s apply this pithy observation to Jewish identity. While it is tempting to equate Judaism with Jewishness, I submit to you that my identity as someone who is Je…
I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2019).