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I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Edward Saids Orientalism and its Implication for Reading Literary Texts. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guid

I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Edward Saids Orientalism and its Implication for Reading Literary Texts. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. “In Orientalism,” Said argued that Western cultural representations of the Orient contributed directly to legitimizing European rule over imperial territories. Far from being an abstract body of ideas, such representations were a means of exercising cultural leadership or hegemony. Oriental writers, from different periods and places, employed a relatively set repertoire of tropes that ‘put the Westerner in a whole series of possible relationships with the Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand. These Orientalist structures of reference and attitude were, what is more, largely self-referential. Said noticed that writers would frequently echo each other. In fact, Orientalist writers often had very little first-hand experience of people and places in the East. According to Said, the discourse of Orientalism – that is, the repeated use and circulation of statements about the Orient – took on the status of ‘truths’ declaimed with authority by Europeans. Orientalists produced this knowledge about the Orient because they enjoyed the unilateral power of representation. Orientalism production of knowledge was not merely a conceptual exercise. it had far-reaching and profound material effects because it became the basis for imperial policy (p. 1).”

The goal here will be to select a primary work by an Oriental writer-author as the focus of the study, and to selected a novel by the author’s to compare and contrast with other Oriental authors and existing body of works, including other works from the author’s own body of work. to understand whether or not Edward Said’s theories of Oriental literature is reflected in the author’s work. The questions that will be asked and analyzed through the literature will help determine whether or not the author, in fact, is a reflection of Said’s criticism, or has preserved the Oriental perspective.

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