“It hardly needs to demonstrated again that language itself is a highly organized and encoded system, which employs many devices to express, indicate, exchange messages and information, represent and so forth.” As a result of this “representation,” regardless of the century, the Orient is always fixed in time and place in the mind of the West and the represented “history” of the “Orient” is conceived of as a series of responses to the West which is always the actor and judge of Oriental behavior. His well-known book, Orientalism was published in 1978 and is probably the often utilized structural analysis of Post-Colonial theory. In the privileged precincts of Columbia University, Said joined the “cultural turn,” in which literary theory and Foucauldrian discourse became methodological tools through which to view culture. Orientalism was a collective European notion of European superiority with the West having the upper hand. Edward Said made the point that this binary opposition based upon the semiotics of power results in paternalistic or aggressive foreign policy decisions. The Orient was contained and represented within the dominating framework. European culture gained in strength and identity be setting itself up against the Orient, so, as Said stated, the two geographic entities support and reflect each other–as opposites in a mirror. European culture gained in strength and identity be setting itself up against the Orient, so, as Said stated, the two geographic entities support and reflect each other–as opposites in a mirror. The British imbibed the drug as a “medicine” and the Queen herself used hashish for menstrual cramps.). Said's Culture and Imperialism.

Postcolonial theory, often said to begin with the work of Edward W. Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Homi K. Bhabha, looks at literature and society from two broad angles: how the writer, artist, cultural worker, and his or her context reflects a colonial past, and how they survive and carve out a new way of creating and understanding the world. Sciences, Culinary Arts and Personal Postcolonialism does not simply imply "after the end of … The Peter Lang Publishing Group has over 40 years of experience in academic publishing, specializing in the humanities and social sciences worldwide and publishing more than 1,800 titles every year. Who is Mad Medico in Anthills of the Savannah? Latur Pin-413517, Maharashtra, India praveenambesange1@gmail.com Available online at: www.isca.in, www.isca.me Received 9 th November 2015, revised 7 July 2016, accepted 14 th July 2016 Abstract Under the scientific gaze of Europeans, Egypt and by extension the Holy Land became an object of study and a place of imaginative exploration. Ultimately, I contend that Said’s resistance to engaging linguistic indeterminacy—or what I am calling the “foreignness in language”—is an attempt to forge a risk-free ethics. Edward Said died in exile, never wavering from his position that Israel was a colonial entity established by imperialist powers and imposed illegitimately upon a people that were considered to have no claim to territory or to identity. Orientalism became a textual grid through which “The Orient” was filtered into Western consciousness.In saying that the West was a prevailing ideology, Said borrowed the concept of hegemony or prevailing “cultural form” from a new influence on Post-Colonial theory, Antonio Gramsci (1891 – 1937) and his odd assortment of Prison Notebooks from 1929-1935 . What became the key concept of postcolonial theory is Said's notion that the colonial experience is better understood by taking into account the perspective of the colonized peoples, because Western scholarship tends to have Eurocentric prejudices against their colonies.