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Orientalism   Listen
noun
Orientalism  n.  
1.
Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.
2.
Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc.





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"Orientalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... repass, a chattering throng. I think of Emerson's Saadi, "As thou sittest at thy door, on the desert's yellow floor,"—for these bare sand-plains, gray above, are always yellow when upturned, and there seems a tinge of Orientalism ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various
... had explained that any show of interest, two men, or five, or twenty, an envoy, even men of pronounced position, would defeat their object; in fact, believing Nana Sahib to be what he was, he conceived the very simple idea of playing the Oriental's Orientalism against him. ...
— Caste • W. A. Fraser
... sentiment of the South. There is a type of mind in the East that delights in refined fallacies, in the reconciling of apparent contradictions, in the tracing of distinction and resemblances where less subtle intellects fail to perceive their possibility. There is a certain Orientalism in the mind of Mr. Lamar, strangely admixed with typical Americanism. He is full of reflection, full of imagination; seemingly careless, yet closely observant; apparently ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine


Words linked to "Orientalism" :   Oriental Studies, quality, orientalist, humanities, humanistic discipline, arts


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