Occidentalism
Occidentalism is a distorted and stereotyped image of Western society (the Occident), which can be held by people inside and outside the Western world and which can be articulated or implicit. The term emerged as the reciprocal of the notion of Orientalism popularized by literary critic Edward Said, which refers to Western stereotypes of the Eastern world, the Orient.[1]
Occidental representations
In China, "Traditions Regarding Western Countries" became a regular part of the Twenty-Four Histories from the 5th century AD, when commentary about The West concentrated upon on an area that did not extend farther than Syria.[2] The extension of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries established, represented, and defined the existence of an "Eastern world" and of a "Western world". Western stereotypes appear in works of Indian, Chinese and Japanese art of those times.[3] At the same time, Western influence in politics, culture, economics and science came to be constructed through an imaginative geography of West and East.
Occidentalism debated
In Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies (2004),
Buruma and Margalit trace that resistance to
See also
- Anti-Western sentiment
- Colonialism
- Decolonization
- Global arrogance
- Atlanticism
- Indigenism
- Islamism
- Orient
- Orientalism
- The War Against the West
References
- ISBN 978-1-135-23640-3.
- ^ Bonnett 2004
- ^ Hilton, Isabel (20 July 2011). "Occidentalism". Prospect Magazine. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
- ^ Hari, Johann (2004-08-15). "Occidentalism by Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit". The Independent. Retrieved 2013-01-29.[dead link]
- ^ Shlapentokh, Dmitry (July 2, 2005). "Changing perceptions". Asia Times. Archived from the original on January 5, 2019. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Martin Jacques (2004-09-04). "Review: Occidentalism by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
- ^ "Occidentalism by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit". The New York Review of Books. 2002-01-17. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
Further reading
- Bonnett, Alastair (2004). The idea of the West: culture, politics, and history. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-0034-5.
- Buruma, I. and ISBN 1-59420-008-4.
- Carrier, James G. Occidentalism: Images of the West, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-827979-5.
- Chen, Xiaomei, Occidentalism: A Theory Of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China, second ed., rev. and expanded. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. ISBN 0-8476-9875-0.
- Cohen, Nick, What's Left?: How the Left Lost its Way, New York, Harper Perennial, 2007. ISBN 9780007229703.
- Hanafi, Hassan, Muqaddimah fi 'ilm al-istighrab (Introduction to Occidentalism), Cairo, Madbuli, 1991.
- König, Daniel G., Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West. Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe, Oxford, OUP, 2015.
- Souza, Teotonio R. de, "Orientalism, Occidentosis and Other Viral Strains: Historical Objectivity and Social Responsibilities", in The Portuguese, Indian Ocean and European Bridgeheads, Festschrift in Honour of K.S. Mathew, eds Pius Malekandathil & Jamal Mohammed, Fundação Oriente, India, 2001.
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