Orientalism

Orientalism is an academic term, used in art history, literary studies, geography, and cultural studies. Orientalism describes a important technique to representations of the Orient; of the jap cultures of the middle East, North Africa, South West Asia, and South East Asia, represented as “European Knowledge   of the Orient” created by means of artists and writers from Western Europe. The idea of Orientalism as it changed into conceived by means of Lord Byron. Within the early 1800‘s refers to a sort of fascination with and depiction of the customs, practices, and mores of eastern cultures. Edward W. Stated, in his groundbreaking book, Orientalism, described it because the attractiveness inside the west of “the primary distinction among East and West because the start line for complex theories, epics, novels, social descriptions, and political accounts regarding the Orient, its people, customs, ‘thoughts,’ destiny and so on". In line with said, the West has created a dichotomy, among the truth of the East and the romantic perception of the "Orient. 

The center East and Asia are regarded with prejudice and racism. They are backward and blind to their very own  records and tradition. To fill this void, the West has created a tradition, history, and destiny promise for them. In this framework rests no longer simplest the look at of the Orient, but additionally the political imperialism of Europe in the East. Orientalism.