A critical reading of said's orientalism: the story of the triumph and failure of the tradition of the stereotyping of the oriental

In the introduction of Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said claims that the major role of novels is not only to please but also to reveal the relationship between culture and imperialism. Culture is a stage where all religions, references, experiences, ideological and political causes integrate to perform a coherent work. Imperialism is a central idea of concern for the western writers because it is standing for the freedom and order in the 3rd world countries. Said argues against this point considering those writers blind to the fact that also have their own history and culture but the western world does not admit it. He supports his claim by giving an example about the great western writer Joseph Conrad who sees imperialism as a system representing this 3rd world and that the "we" is exceptional not empirical. Said finds Conrad in his novels a representation of both figures the imperialist and the anti-imperialist. Conrad to Said is an imperialist when rejecting the idea that the 3rd world countries have their independent culture or history and an anti-imperialist in the sense that he is aware of the corruption caused by domination and imperialism. Said claims that the empire causes culture to become "heterogeneous, extraordinary, and different." Hence, the advantage of narratives is that they represent this integrated relationship among cultures that is hard to be separated.