Orientalism and literature Orientalism and Literature discusses a key critical concept in literary studies and how it assists our reading of literature. It reviews the concepts evolution: how it has been explored imagined and narrated in literature. Part I considers Orientalisms origins and its geographical and multidisciplinary scope then considers the major genres and trends Orientalism inspired in the literary critical field such as the eighteenth century Oriental tale reading the Bible and Victorian Oriental fiction. Part II recaptures specific aspects of Edward Saids Orientalism: the multidisciplinary contexts and scholarly discussions it has inspired (such as colonial discourse race resistance feminism and travel writing). Part III deliberates upon recent and possible future applications of Orientalism probing its currency and effectiveness in the twenty first century the role it has played and continues to play in the operation of power and how in new forms neo Orientalism and Islamophobia it feeds into various genres from migrant writing to journalism.