orientalism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East, especially in 19th century Europe. countable,uncountable
    — Moreover, among the group that was associated with the short-lived Institut historique, of which Senancour was a member from 1834 to 1840, was Eugène Burnouf, the great orientalist, to whom much of the responsibility for the revived interest in orientalism of the mid-nineteenth century must be attributed.
  2. An Eastern word, expression, or custom. countable
    — The Scriptural style and the Scriptural language are not meant for one age, but for all ages. Its orientalisms will grow in the west; its archaisms will be found still young in the nineteenth century.
  3. A patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies. capitalized,countable,uncountable
    — Unlike the Americans, the French and the British—less so the Germans, Russians, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, and Swiss—have had a long tradition of what I shall be calling Orientalism, a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient’s special place in European Western experience.

词形变化

orientalisms plural Orientalism alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
techno-orientalism
相关词
orientalist

词源

From French orientalisme, from oriental (“eastern, Oriental”). In the sense “patronizing Western attitude” popularized by Edward Said's 1978 book Orientalism. Equivalent to Oriental + -ism.
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