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- Title
Orientalism's Discourse --Said, Foucault and the Anxiety of Influence.
- Authors
Jin Suh Jirn
- Abstract
This article will reconsider Edward W. Said's notion of "traveling theory" in light of his most influential work Orientalism and its appropriation of Michel Foucault's theory of "discourse," which has prompted criticism from a number of scholars, including James Clifford and Robert J. C. Young. Rather than looking at the question of whether Said misappropriates the work of Foucault, I will, via Harold Bloom's concept of "misprision," argue that he "misreads" the French philosopher in order to add a political valence that is missing or attenuated in the original work. Also, I will show why Said is less concerned with constructing a theory of Orientalism than with speaking truth to power about the distorted image of the non-EuroAmerican other in Western art and culture, and its impact on global politics and history.
- Subjects
ORIENTALISM; SAID, Edward W., 1935-2003; FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; YOUNG, J. C.; CLIFFORD, James, 1945-
- Publication
EurAmerica, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 2, p279
- ISSN
1021-3058
- Publication type
Article