The Framed Arab/Muslim

When Said established the bridge between Orientalism as literary creation and the impact of the media in Covering Islam, there was not yet much of an empirical basis to support his claim.Instead, he trusted the "hermeneutically trained mind" to think critically and act against labels like Arab and Muslim (Said, Covering Islam 165).Any contemporary analysis which seeks to investigate the impact of mediated Orientalism on the real world needs to start with a detailed status-quo analysis of what this real world looks like.When acknowledging the complexity of Orientalism, a mere counting of stereotypes does not suffice for this task.When seeking to gain a more differentiated picture of how the mediated image of Arabs is framed, a close analysis of Orientalism and the empirical data provided by Media Studies reveals that Orientalism is a multi-layered concept.This complexity is also reflected on the various levels and layers through which Orientalism is mediated. THE IDEOLOGICAL FRAME: ORIENTALISM Defining What Defines the Orient(al)Edward Said in Orientalism does not provide a single and universally applicable definition of his theory.Rather, the work in its entirety due to its mostly "historical method" serves as a demonstration of how many facets have accompanied and thus created Orientalism throughout the centuries (El-Haj 550).This has not prevented scholars of Orientalism from creating their own definitions of what Said missed or intentionally refused to define.Differentiating between the said and the "Unsaid" in Said therefore brings illuminating insights into the vast desert of definitions circulating in the literature (Varisco 1).While Said did not provide a concise definition of Orientalism, the following passage provides one of the most comprehensive summaries found in his work

Art · Literature · Orientalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History

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  Open Access•Ravi Sadhu•Journal for Undergraduate…•2021

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