The Emergence of Discourses and Cultural Hegemony

A Study of Edward W. Said’s Orientalism

Jai Singh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

108 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5492-0 (ISBN)

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Edward W. Said (1935-2003) brought out a major disruption in the way the orient understands itself through the discourse of orientalism. He developed a contrapuntal perspective – a method of thinking which interprets experiences that are discrepant and this style of reading and understanding helped him attain a new outlook that refuses to accept the prevalent readings of texts, cultures and identities. Through his powerful writings he attained a stature wherein his name became synonymous with postcolonial theory. This book focuses on Edward W. Said's seminal text Orientalism wherein he foregrounds how the emergence of the discourse of orientalism perpetrated cultural hegemony of the West onto the colonized world. The present study focuses on the analysis of the complex relationship between the emergence of discourses and perpetration of hegemony both from outside: colonizer to colonized as well as internal hegemony within the non-western world that was making things difficult for the natives.

Jai Singh (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. He has international assignments: a research stay at Central European University, Hungary; a research stay at the University of Turku, Finland; collaboration with the Literary Association of Nepal; collaboration with Government Brajalal College, Khulna, Bangladesh; collaboration with Cultural Arcs Foundation, Bulgaria, Ivanovo Center for Gender Studies, Russia; a member of the Research Panel at Yonphula Centenary College Royal University of Bhutan. He works in the fields of Indology, Orientalism, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities, Medical Humanities, and Postmodernism. He has had books published with Cambridge Scholars and other publishers and in SCOPUS-listed journals of international repute.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-5492-4 / 1036454924
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5492-0 / 9781036454920
Zustand	Neuware