Orientalism and Historiography on the Base of Edward Said’s ‘out of Place’

This study aims to analyze the starting point of the concept of Orientalism, which has been occupied the agenda of the academic world for a long time, over the memoir book of Edward Said, Out of Place and to reveal Orientalism’s impact especially on the post-colonial historiography with the obtained interpretation. In the ongoing literature, the concept of Orientalism and Edward Said’s identity confusion of which he defined as a kind of exile was put forth in the place of post-colonial historiography. Besides, it is vital to examine his stance to the roots of East-West conundrum to understand the academic reflection of his individual experiences and the concept of Orientalism through his memoir. In terms of post-colonial historiography, when he looked back, his childhood of which he regraded himself as other and his education at different institutions, also, his perspective of which the identity was estranged from others provided him to develop an outlook differentiating the exploited and exploiter and he took a stand in subaltern. Perusing over his memoir, his passion of expressing his exile and the being the spokesman of the silenced fractions can be easily noticed. Thus, his lifelong experiences gave him an opportunity of enrichment in terms of politics, history, literature and academic circle