المستخلص: |
Orientalism as a productive practice of power and knowledge contributed to the establishment of the imperialist European age in the African Continent in the 19th Century. This Century produced prototype images and many contemptuous classifications; the race was the most important element that this project was legitimized and justified with. It was the race itself that contributed to a great extent in establishing the national state establishment whether during the colonialist period or in the post-colonial one. The race was a common denominator among three intellectual systems that directly had influence on following successive development of the 19th Century; it firmly anchors the sovereign state, capitalism, and the imperialist age. Colonialism invested the racist policies as a means to legitimize its existence and used those policies as a successful method to divide people, classify them and bring them into contempt. Also, it established the problem of merchandising the human self and considered it as source for energy away from any value system. Within this value free system, Mary Daly pointed out the danger of focusing on the materialistic resources apart from humanizing policies, and she displayed the orientalist representations toward the people of the African Continent during the imperialist age showing complete departure from the given of "morals".
|