ShmoopTube

00:00

Thank you We sneak in Dracula Orientalism Alas shmoop Vocabulary

00:15

word orientalism What what is that in dracula What does

00:20

it mean So a literary critic edward sayyed wrote a

00:25

book called orientalism and it was basically he basically defined

00:30

orientalism as using sort of using stereotypical depictions of the

00:37

orient or the non west Basically and those stereotypical depictions

00:42

tended to be that the orient is its eternal it's

00:47

timeless In dracula it sort of veers into some of

00:52

the more kind of nefarious or negative stereotypes of the

00:56

of the orient as being kind of shifty being crafty

01:02

that sort of blends in with a little bit of

01:04

an anti an anti semitic sort of sets of anti

01:07

semitic troops from the age Also yeah orientalism is just

01:12

sort of the assigning of these kind of stock characteristics

01:16

to the orient which is that i mean we don't

01:19

call anything the orient order But the orient in itself

01:22

sort of is of a culturally imagine construction of a

01:27

part of the world And we're telling it makes an

01:31

interesting point that the birth of orientalism or this kind

01:35

of discourse back in the sort of in the middle

01:39

ages during the crusades had to deal with the fact

01:41

that potentially the orient was the center and two and

01:46

for the west to come teo To deal with that

01:49

It had to sort of create a set of cultural

01:52

cultural tropes and discourses by which to sort of define

01:55

the orient is something other than center other than sort

01:59

of powerful other than threatening And so that's kind of

02:03

It was at the heart of orientalism God okay mixes 00:02:09.67 --> [endTime] What is orientalism

Full Transcript