File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1996/96-07-14.151, message 190


From: Joseph Davis <JDavis-AT-pcmail-bld40.uow.edu.au>
Subject: Orientalism
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 16:15:00 PST



Surely Edward Said would have a hard time reconciling his notion of   
orientalism developed in his monumental "Orientalism" (one of the major,   
early post-colonial literary texts) with the one offered by Shashwati,

 -Joseph G. Davis

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From:  owner-postcolonial[SMTP:owner-postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU]
Sent:  Thursday, July 11, 1996 12:01
To:  postcolonial
Cc:  postcolonial
Subject:  Re: film review/orientalism

Valerie,

There were all sorts of give aways, he remarks how wonderful Indian
culture is, and how the woman in her saree and with her beautiful Indian
looks was preserving it, references to gunga Din etc. And sure enough at   
the end of the film he is seen picking up some women in burkas. There is 
anothe, rather unkind term for men who fetichize Asian women, "Rice 
King." Being somebody who lived in India before moving to the US, I 
recognize the breed quite easily, and when I don't feel like calling them 
'Rice King' I use the respectable term, "Orientalist."
    

Shashwati



> just wondering, what makes the old man an "orientalist"? because he was a
> Britisher who had been to India? because he liked Indian women? or did he
> study Sanskrit? I'm interested in how this term has evolved in current
> usage, and I honestly don't remember from the movie what this character's
> background was.
>
> Valerie


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