Discourse analysis reveals how European culture managed and produced the Orient

Evidence

I have found it useful here to employ Michel Foucault’s notion of a discourse, as described by him in The Archaeology of Knowledge and in Discipline and Punish, to identify Orientalism. My contention is that without examining Orientalism as a discourse one cannot possibly understand the enormously systematic discipline by which European culture was able to manage—and even produce—the Orient politically, sociologically, militarily, ideologically, scientifically, and imaginatively during the post-Enlightenment period. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 55

Categorization

• DEFINE: Said’s explicit adoption of Foucault’s discourse concept as the analytical key — core scaffolding.
• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge and Discipline and Punish; carries forward into biopolitics readings. — connects to: the MOC “The Tongue of Power: When Language Becomes the Battlefield of Empire”
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 55