Eurasianism from the point of view of E. Said's concept of orientalism

Abstract

The paper deals with selected aspects of the studies of orientalism, as it was introduced by E. W.

Said in his monograph Orientalism, in the context of Russian colonial experience, with specific features of Russian "internal" and "outer" colonization, as well as with elements of Orientalism reflected in Russian literature. The applicability of E.

Said' theory is demonstrated through an analysis of the poetic works of one of the founders of the Eurasian movement, P. N.

Savickij.

Keywords

• Orientalism
• Russian literature
• P. N. Savickij
• E. W. Said
• internal colonization
• Occidentalism
• postcolonial studies
• Eurasianism