Ansa George & Elizabeth Sebastian I MA English, St. Aloysius College (Autonomous) Mangalore, Karnataka-575003 Abstract: Edward Said makes use of the term, ‘Other’ in his work Orientalism to represent the East. This terminology was adopted from Jacques Laccan’s ‘Mirror Image’ concept. According to this concept the child begins to understand his or her identity by…
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Empire and Excess: Kipling and the Critique of Said’s Orientalism
Sourit Bhattacharya Edward Said’s Orientalism remains one of the most influential books of the last quarter of twentieth century. In an informative manner, Said locates the seeds of Orientalism right in the medieval European imagination that solidifies itself in the nineteenth century. It is through knowledge, power, reason, scientific technologies and disciplinary set-up, philosophical supremacy…