These approaches rely on the idea of an inequality between :
In « Edward Said and Contrapuntal reading », Geetah Chowdhry constrasts Edward Said’s work with Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations (1996).
Huntington characterized the world into 9 civilisations.Civilizations have essential characteristics (traits of Mexican as lack of ambition acceptance of poverty as a religious virtue).
For Edward Said :
? For Samuel Huntington :
Postcolonial approaches can start from the coloniser’s point of view or by the the colonized’s.
Said adopts the coloniser’s point of view with the orientalist discourse
2 things about this discourse :
=> The structure of essentialisation.
We can also start from the colonized’s point of view : by a pre-colonial history for example or bay looking at their experience of colonianism. ?
Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism describes the attempt to consider the colonised’s point of view through a metaphor : the counterpoint. (relationship between several musical lines that are harmonically interdependent). Must take account of both sides and processes, imperialism and resistance to it.
These approaches rely on the idea of an inequality between :
In « Edward Said and Contrapuntal reading », Geetah Chowdhry constrasts Edward Said’s work with Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations (1996).
Huntington characterized the world into 9 civilisations.Civilizations have essential characteristics (traits of Mexican as lack of ambition acceptance of poverty as a religious virtue).
For Edward Said :
? For Samuel Huntington :
Postcolonial approaches can start from the coloniser’s point of view or by the the colonized’s.
Said adopts the coloniser’s point of view with the orientalist discourse
2 things about this discourse :
=> The structure of essentialisation.
We can also start from the colonized’s point of view : by a pre-colonial history for example or bay looking at their experience of colonianism. ?
Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism describes the attempt to consider the colonised’s point of view through a metaphor : the counterpoint. (relationship between several musical lines that are harmonically interdependent). Must take account of both sides and processes, imperialism and resistance to it.