Fabricated Intellectual Hegemony of the Colonizers: A Comparative Analysis of Post-colonial texts
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of the research is to analyze the postcolonial texts from the perspective of “Orientalism” with its aspect of “Fabricated Intellectual Hegemony”. It is a process in which the Orients are constructed, represented, and described by Europe as the corporative institution. It deals with the Orient by making statements about the Orient, authorizing the views about it, describing it, teaching it, settling it, ruling over it. In “Orientalism” the binaries are set to maintain power over the colonized. “Strategic Location” is about the position of the writer in the novel and “Strategic Formation” deals with the relation of postcolonial texts with one another. The article applies Edward Said’s theory of “Orientalism” (2003)1 to three novels by different authors in order to highlight the fact how “Orientalism” exploits the colonized by fabricating reality. This study applied a qualitative approach with Catherine Belsey’s method of thematic content analysis with the conceptual framework of “Orientalism” in a Postcolonial context. The study is significant and unique because it showed a comparative analysis of the postcolonial writers and texts as well.
Institution: Ghazi University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4296293000