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This is a 10 page paper discussing the idea of Orientalism and the novel the “Wide Sargasso Sea”. Jean Rhys’ novel “Wide Sargasso Sea” is a good example of imperialism and colonization from the perspective of someone other than the colonists which makes it a good example of the Orientalist method of literature. As the Orientalists vision can promote the difference between the ‘familiar’, in the case of the novel, England and the ‘strange’, or the Caribbean, Rhys does a good job at distinguishing her main character’s acceptance of the people, culture and landscape in contrast to the English colonists who live there.
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example of the Orientalist method of literature. As the Orientalists vision can promote the difference between the familiar, in the case of the novel, England and the strange, or the
Caribbean, Rhys does a good job at distinguishing her main characters acceptance of the people, culture and landscape in contrast to the English colonists who live there. Where the natives
view the island as their home which has been forever changed by the influences of imperialism, their unique framework provides them with a more complete perspective of their surroundings as
opposed to the English colonists who only live on the island with the intention of returning to England. As an outcome of European power and knowledge, Orientalism is a Western
cultural phenomenon which is associated with the colonial and imperial impression of the people of the Orient and Eastern cultures and their history. According to Edward Said, Orientalism is "a
political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, the West, us) and the strange (the Orient, the East, them)" (Al-Dami, 1998). As the West is
visualized by Westerners to be the strong and dominating culture, it takes it upon itself to contain and restrain the cultural elements of the East. The West also only recognizes
those forces and elements in the Eastern culture which are familiar entities in regards to Western society. In order to contain the unfamiliarity of Eastern culture, the Westerners take
to contain the Eastern elements in their society in dominating frameworks. These frameworks take different forms in different areas around the world as colonists apply different techniques to control and
contain the foreign environment and people. The West is seen as defeating East in the reorganization of historical ascendancy. The imperial society which is trying to overcome the Eastern culture
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