Examples used in the book include critical analyses of the colonial literature of Joseph Conrad, which conflates a people, a time, and a place into one narrative of an incident and adventure in an exotic land. Īccording to Said, in the Middle East, the social, economic, and cultural practices of the ruling Arab elites indicate they are imperial satraps who have internalized a romanticized version of Arab Culture created by French, British and later, American, Orientalists. Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of the Western scholarship about the Eastern World, is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power. Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. Said, in which the author establishes the term " Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the West's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of The East, i.e.
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