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Orientalism
Original title: オリエンタリズム
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The main content was written in 1975–76, when the author was a research fellow at Stanford University. “Orientalism,” previously a term for things such as Oriental taste in art, was defined as the West's mode of thought about the East and critically examined as racist and imperialist. Through this examination, it also raised the questions of how people represent other cultures and what other cultures are. Its materials for discussion include literary works as well as scholarly literature.
The “Orient” covered in this book is mainly the Middle East, and it analyzes French, British, and American Orientalism since the 18th century. Said cites his consciousness as an Oriental raised in Palestine and Egypt as his motivation for studying Orientalism.
主な内容は、著者がスタンフォード大学の研究員だった1975年-76年に執筆された。従来は美術における東洋趣味などを指す語だった「オリエンタリズム」を、西洋の東洋に対する思考様式として定義し、人種主義的、帝国主義的であるとして批判的に検討した。その検討を通じて、人間は異文化をいかにして表象するのか、また異文化とは何なのかという問題提起も行なった。そのための素材として、学術文献だけでなく文芸作品も含めて論じている。
本書で扱う「オリエント」の範囲は主に中東であり、18世紀以降のフランス、イギリス、アメリカ合衆国のオリエンタリズムが分析されている。サイードは、オリエンタリズムを研究することになった動機について、パレスチナとエジプトで育った東洋人(オリエンタル)としての意識をあげている。
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