后殖民主义理论是当代西方学术思潮的重要内容。萨义德与霍米巴巴、斯皮瓦克三人的理论构成后殖民主义理论整体框架,《东方学》为后殖民主义理论的典范之作。纵观全书,萨义德运用福柯“话语与权力”、黑格尔“自我与他者”理论,同时结合了法农民族歧视和文化殖民、葛兰西文化霸权理论,将东方主义作为西方对东方的话语进行研究,揭示了东方主义的殖民主义本质。《东方学》的历史地位,并不在于其得出了确切的可行的结论,而是它在新的理论范式下重新检视了东、西方在政治、文化等方面的关系。 Postcolonial theory is an important part of contemporary Western academic trend of thought. The theories of Sayyid, Homoevba and Spivak constitute the overall framework of post-colonial theory, and Oriental Studies is a model for post-colonial theory. Throughout the book, Sayin uses Foucault “discourse and power ”, Hegel “self and others ” theory, at the same time combines the Farmer discrimination and cultural colonization, Gramsci cultural hegemony theory, will Orientalism, as a Western study of Eastern discourse, reveals the essence of Orientalist colonialism. The historical position of “Orientalism” does not lie in the fact that it has come to an exact conclusion. Instead, it revisits the relations between the East and the West politically and culturally under the new theoretical paradigm.