Orientalism

The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East, especially in 19th century Europe.countableuncountable

• Moreover, among the group that was associated with the short-lived Institut historique, of which Senancour was a member from 1834 to 1840, was Eugène Burnouf, the great orientalist, to whom much of the responsibility for the revived interes

An Eastern word, expression, or custom.countable

• The Scriptural style and the Scriptural language are not meant for one age, but for all ages. Its orientalisms will grow in the west; its archaisms will be found still young in the nineteenth century.

A patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies.capitalizedcountableuncountable

• Unlike the Americans, the French and the British—less so the Germans, Russians, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, and Swiss—have had a long tradition of what I shall be calling Orientalism, a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is base
• But he [Robert Irwin] is more lucid and reliable when he sets out to demonstrate the complexity and diversity of Orientalism, to defend his profession from the charge of being a conscious or unconscious accomplice of empire, and to decry th