Mar 30, 2021 chapter 36 considers the difficulty in defining exoticism, in determining its contentious relationship to the concept of orientalist representation and to the analysis of crosscultural influence, and the attempts that have been made to establish a periodization of its historical development. This topic is vast and multifaceted, spanning nearly two centuries and transversing multiple disciplines. This often involved surrounding foreign cultures with mystique and fantasy which owed more to european culture than to the exotic cultures themselves. Through colonialism european powers followed expansionist policies throughout the nineteenth century. This class will focus on how french and francophone cultures have imagined and represented nonwesterners and, in particular the civilization of the middle east, the maghreb, and africa. Tales of turkish harems, imprisoned women, and western heroes were widely popular during the height of western europes fascination with the ottoman empire. The concept of orientalism and exoticism has been at the centre of scholarly analysis within the field of popular music and has been a particularly pertinent issue within cultural studies, predominantly concerning the roles in which these two concepts play within the. He argues that the latter term is not always applied in the full saidian sense and is some times used to invalidate or reject musical. Race, gender, and the exotic the authors 2014 in ann. Getting started this guide will assist students in navigating the special collections department in order to complete their assignments in fr 1059. Perrys mission was to convince the japanese government to establish diplomatic and commercial relations with the united states, thus ending a two.
Orientalism exoticism self exoticism volume 35 issue 1 skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Jeanaugustedominique ingres 29 august 1780 14 january 1867 was a french neoclassical painter. Orientalism in the victorian era has origins in three aspects of 18thcentury european and british culture. Orientalism and hegemonization in his book entitled orientalism 1978, edward said describes his analysis of literary works of orientalist countries such as britain, france and america, which are considered to be the cornerstone of other countries eastern countries and islam orientalism book, n. In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the eastern world. Often subsumed under the discursive umbrella of orientalism, exoticism has yet to receive the critical attention it deserves, particularly in postcolonial studies. Orientalist paintings and said orientalism zahra sadat ismailinejad shiraz university, iran email address. Orientalism and coleridge romantic orientalism the second term sometimes expanded to oriental exoticism or oriental fantasy brings together two concepts that continue to be much in dispute among theorists and literary historians. Exoticism quotes quotes tagged as exoticism showing 16 of 6 the exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire. Exoticism may take the form of primitivism, ethnocentrism, or humanism. Re orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of orientalism by orientals lau 2009, is a discourse which comes out of and is inescapably informed by postcolonial and diasporic.
Orientalists, he claims, have plotted their narratives about the history, character, and destiny of the orient for centuries but in the nineteenth and twentieth. The idea of these seraglio stories is a popular trope in the discussion of musical orientalism. While exoticism is closely linked to orientalism, it is not a movement necessarily associated with a particular time period or culture. Orientalism and erotic multiculturalism in popular culture. There is a long tradition of classical composers writing music evoking the exotic nonwestern world, and many operas and other works attempt to depict the exotic and the oriental. Eastern civilization versus orientalist exoticism cambridge.
Orientalism, for said, is a kind of western projection onto and will to govern over the orient. Aladdin and the enchanted lamp movie representation of orientalism how they remade the abrabic eastern fairy tail into an american movie. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the west. This movie was made based on the disney version which was released in 1992 and because the director was white which represented the western and some of the characters are also white and the entire movie everything were displayed in middle east culture so. Exorcising exoticism 129 tal had the effect of superimposing european values over these other cultures, creating a distorted picture that conformed more with the expectations and fears of europeans than with reality. Cinema, orientalism, exoticism, was inspired by noam chomsky and edward hermans manufacturing consent.
It is a reflection of the relationship of imperial and intellectual domination of a west. It adopts a cultural perspective that is firmly entrenched in the conventions and belief systems of western civilization and therefore constructs the east as the archetypical location of otherness. Edward saids orientalism and the representation of. Orientalism is a critique of western texts that have represented the east as an exotic and inferior other and construct the orient by a set. Thus a very large mass of writers, among whom are poets, novelists, philosophers, political theorists, economists, and imperial. Orientalism is also traceable in music that is considered to have effects of exoticism, including the japonisme in claude debussys piano music all the way to the sitar being used in recordings by the beatles. Orientalism and india 3 the hegemonic discourse of orientalism orientalism, for said, is a kind of western projection onto and will to govern over. Feb 09, 2021 exoticism and orientalism in french literature and art oakland campus. Therefore, they established the socalled field of lrientalism to study lrient. Oriental exoticism always had more boxoffice appeal than the actual asians and asian immigrants in the united states. Exoticism and orientalism in america, theres a tendency to the people from countries in the far east under one general term, asian.
Navy commander mathew perry entered the harbor of uraga. Getting started exoticism and orientalism in french. Even before largescale chinese immigration to american soil in the midnineteenth century, yankee trad. The political economy of the mass media 1988, a book that deals mainly with the cultural policy and economics of mass media. Commenting on an engraving of a tunisian ensemble performing at the paris international exhibition of. Orientalism in south korea through the eyes of their people. Its deconstructive approach to the exotic breaks new grounds of analysis beyond the saidian problematic of orientalism. I shall be calling orientalism, a way of coming to terms with the. Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between the orient and most of the time the occident. Opera was the most likely vehicle for musical orientalism. It often involves seeing arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized, and at times dangerous. Orientalism exoticism self exoticism the orient was almost a european invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories.
Exoticism from exotic is a trend in european art and design, whereby artists became fascinated with ideas and styles from distant regions, and drew inspiration from them. Looking at the influence orientalism and exoticism have had on western music. Duke university press on behalf of the university of oregon stable url. Pdf the role of orientalism and exoticism in the musical. By contrast, mcclary and locke, drawing on edward saids groundbreaking orientalism said 1978, read musical and theatrical orientalism more. On july 8, two frigates and two vessels directed by the u. Chinese, japanese, vietnamese, korean, and other groups categorized as asians lose. In fact, and since the publication of what is by now a locus classicus in postcolonial scholarship, namely, edward saids orientalism 1978, exoticism has been construed either as a. In his book orientalism, edward said addresses the idea that the way the orient has and still is pictured and understood by the west is not only diminishing but closer to mythology than reality. As one might expect from his title, locke prefers the term exoticism and draws attention to the ambiguity and confusion that surrounds the widelyused orientalism. The orient was almost a european invention, and had been since antiquity a. This class will focus on how french and francophone cultures have imagined and represented non. Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the orientdealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it settling it, ruling over it.
From the turkish menace to exoticism and orientalism. Orientalism and the islamic philosophy orientalism is the concept that there is something very special and different about the thought of those living in the east, which can be discovered through the methods of scholarship current in the west. Framing and manufacturing filipinoness rethinking world. In this article, i extend this impulse by illustrating connections between early twentiethcentury erotic and exotic representations of a feminised orient and contemporary hypermediated negotiations of sex and gender in. Orientalism, the other being a french school of painting concerned with representations 1 robert irwin, dangerous knowledge. Orientalism and hegemonization in his book entitled orientalism 1978, edward said describes his analysis of literary works of orientalist countries such as britain, france and america, which are considered to be the cornerstone of other countries eastern countries and islam orientalism. Appreciation versus appropriation expands upon previous research to fully explore the concept of. Carmen and the construction of oriental spain authors. Exoticism bibliography the term exoticism describes a cultural phenomenon that projects western fantasies about profound cultural differences. For example, the great french composer jeanphilippe rameau, a close contemporary of bach and handel, wrote an opera called les indes galantes, which takes place in both asia and south america, and in which he made an 18th century attempt to portray exoticism in music. Saids groundbreaking monograph orientalism 1978 inspired critical reflection of orientalist discourses contained within dominant western literature. In its twenty seasons of performances 1909 1929, the ballet rousse of sergei diaghilev presented before the eyes of cultivated europeans an evolving figure of the female dancer. The images have been organized chronologically beginning in 1733 and ending in 1885. Excerpts from orientalism, which originally appeared in the.
Ina baghdiantz mccabe, orientalism in early modern france. First, it refers to a specific esthetic movement, especially in painting and also more generally within the eighteenth and nineteenthcentury artwork, which after the french conquest of egypt sought inspiration in oriental motives and themes, often using them in highly eclectic and idiosyncratic ways see figure 1. Orientalism exoticism self exoticism anthony shay and barbara sellersyoung the orient was almost a european invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Said i978, i the past century has witnessed the phenomenon of belly dancing becoming a key. Locke exoticism and orientalism, in new, grove dictionary of music and musicians rev. Orientalism and exoticism bennington college curriculum. Exoticism and orientalism in french literature and art. Feb 05, 2017 in his book orientalism, edward said addresses the idea that the way the orient has and still is pictured and understood by the west is not only diminishing but closer to mythology than reality. The latter are perceived as distantwhether temporally, spatially, or sociallyand as different from ones own culture. On the one hand, there was the ballerina in the style of ballet blanc. As christopher miller has stated, the orient was an adventure based in realistic acts of description. For example, the great french composer jeanphilippe rameau, a close. In particular, orientalist painting, depicting more specifically the middle east, was one of the many specialisms of 19thcentury academic art, and the literature of western countries. The concept of orientalism and exoticism has been at the centre of scholarly analysis within the field of popular music and has been a particularly pertinent issue within cultural studies, predominantly concerning the roles in which these two concepts play within the musical practices of certain ethnic groups.
Just as examples of self and intraasian exoticism unsettle our models of orientalist appropriation and representation, certain geocultural regions such as east asia appear to be engaged in creating transnational musics more independently of the west. Orientalism in south korea through the eyes of their people paperessay by gerli koort introduction orientalism is a particular historical manifestation of this ethnocentric orientation. It is based on a western consciousness which includes a battery of desires, repressions, investments and. Representatives of other cultures in education, literature, and the arts are being. Self exoticism anthony shay pomona college barbara sellersyoung university of california davis recommended citation shay, anthony and barbara sellersyoung.
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