The Contributions Of Patientism In Edward Said's Orientalism

Literary criticism has added a new discipline named Orientalism. It is a term produced by Edward Said when he tackled the topic of the westerners’ representation of the easterners namely the Middle East in terms of their customs, people, mind, landscapes. It is also a literary division categorizing the western writers and narrators who write about the Orient. Hence, when a piece of work is written about the Orient, it will belong to the Orientalist School . In this framework, it is historically believed that the western narrators had come with large productions of literature vis-à-vis the colonized countries such as Morocco. Those productions overlapped the colonial era in order to their imperial policies and ideologies. So

Basically his encounter with the Moorish culture led to a series of writings that portrayed the Moroccan culture negatively from an Orientalist perspective. His visit to the Moorish land was not coincident; it is a result of his thirst to discovery since he was a painter and caricaturist. He came to Morocco to portray Morocco of the late 19thcentury as an exotic,uncivilized and barbarian land. He sketched Moroccan characters and landscapes negatively, and hence named it “the other” from his own western position.He revealed in a clear way his loaded negative assumption through depicting the conditions of the urban spaceand the

That was the leading cause behind his poetic and romantic description about Morocco. According to Stenberg in his book Barbarians of Morocco, the Europeans believe that the Orient is their own heritage as David Spurrpointed out in his bookThe Rhetoric of Empire ‘Frederick Lugard, the British governor General of Nigeria in 1907-1919 considered the European powers to be “Custodians of the Tropics” and trustees of civilization for the commerce of the world “The tropics are the heritage of mankind.” Here we come to the idea of Edward