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CHAPTER 2
ORIENTALISM, DIASPORA, HYBRIDITY, RESISTANCE AND
IDENTITY
2.1 Introduction
In
this
chapter
two,
the
writer
presents
the
theories
that
will
be
used
to
analyze
the
problems
in chapter
three. Chapter
two consists
of Orientalism
as the
background
of
Postcolonial,
Diaspora,
Hybridity,
Resistance,
and
Identity
as the
theories
that
he
will
explain and elaborate and also as
the
background
for
the reader to know and
understand
before reading
in chapter three.
2.2 Orientalism by Edward Said
Edward Said evaluation and critique of the set of beliefs known as Orientalism
forms gives an important background for Postcolonial studies.
Edward
Said (b.1935)
is
a Palestinian,
who was educated
in Palestine
and Egypt
when
those
countries
were
under
British
jurisdiction,
and
subsequently
in the United
States. Said was one of
the first critics in
America to respond to the challenge of
European structuralist and post-structuralist theory. (Lodge, David. p.271)
Edward Said
rejects
the
declaration from
Western as
the
Superior people while
the
others are Inferior as he put his thought in his theory, Orientalism.
Said, Edward (1978) in Orientalism:
“Orientalism
is a
style
of
thought
based
upon
an
ontological
and
epistemological
distinction
made between ‘the Orient’ and (most of the
time) ‘the Occident’.” (Ashcroft, Bill, et al. 1995:88)
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