Orientalismo

In these times when the media inundates us and is itself inundated with images and stereotypes concerning Islam and Muslims, Edward W. Said offers us a rigorous and illuminating description of the formation and development of these "received ideas" or commonplaces that often hinder or bias our understanding. In Orientalism, Edward W. Said provides an illuminating description of the formation and development of commonplaces about Islam and Muslims, which often hinder or bias our understanding. He shows us how these "ideological clichés" serve the interests and strategies of the dominant power and points out the difficulty for the Western world in thinking about the Orient without first breaking down these prejudices that distort our understanding. It also shows us how the relationship between East and West is a power relationship, built on the subordination of the idea of ​​the East to the strong Western imaginary based on the centralist superiority of a "us" faced by a "them", the non-European, experienced as "the strange".