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Figures of Colonial Resistance
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A pioneering study of the power/knowledge relations in a "disciplining" of the Arab-Islamic world, "Orientalism" remains a paradigmatic text for the nascent field of colonial discourse theory as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
As AN ETHICS OF READING THAT BEGAN BY EXCAVATING the Colonial past stratified in Western forms of knowledge, colonial discourse theory is currently contending with the problem of articulating resistance.1 Because Western authority over the representation of its colonies involves the narrative containment of anticolonial insurgency, an attention to native disruptions and restructurings of eurocentric discourses is now recognized as crucial to any critical investigation of colonialism. Edward Said's Orientalism, a pioneering study of the power/knowledge relations in a "disciplining" of the Arab-Islamic world, remains a paradigmatic text for the nascent field of colonial discourse theory. However, Said has also come under criticism for over-estimating the success of Orientalism in confining the whole East to a theatrical staging of "the Orient."2 Are the colonizedread more
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