Define Orientalism and list its three main dimensions.

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Said’s most basic contention that the Orient, “the place of Europe’s greatest and richest and oldest colonies, the source of its civilizations and languages,” was in an important sense invented by the West through the process of Orientalism (Said 1978:1). Orientalism has three dimensions to it. First, it refers to all the scientific and academic disciplines whose purpose is to study Oriental cultures and customs. A second dimension refers to Orientalism in a more general sense as a “style of thought,” the “ideological suppositions, images, and fantasies about a region of the world called the Orient” (Said 2000:199). The third dimension speaks of Orientalism as a source of power for “dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient” (Said 1978:3).

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