The scholarship has been controlled, almost dictated by racism. Here is the West's crude vision of the Orient- a mixture of barbarity and luxury, of military ferocity and unspeakable depravity, all bathed in a twilight glow of exoticism.Įdward Said's book is an exploration of the West's attitude to Islam and the East, an ideology that goes by the name of Orientalism- a mixture of prejudice, racist assumptions, intertwined and underpinned with scholarship and archeology. Seem to indicate the anticipation of debauchery.
There is a sly smile on the sheik's face, which, with his very relaxed pose, would
Stands facing an old sheik, armed to the teeth, surrounded by retainers in a blue-tiled palace the boy's father or owner is playing on a flute. The dust jacket of the book is a picture by the 19th-century French artist, Jean-Leon Gerome, "The Snake Charmer." A stark-naked boy of about 12, with a python around his shoulders,
The author, as it confirms a part of his thesis. S I passed through security at Heathrow Airport, the guard, seeing this book, said meaningfully, "That looks interesting." This reaction would doubtless please
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