Orientalism, Volume 10A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... Burton's legacy is more complex than individualism precisely because in his writing we can find exemplified the ... Burton was an imperialist , for all his sympathetic self - association with the Arabs ; but what is more relevant is that ...
... Burton's legacy is more complex than individualism precisely because in his writing we can find exemplified the ... Burton was an imperialist , for all his sympathetic self - association with the Arabs ; but what is more relevant is that ...
Page 196
... Burton's freedom was in having shaken himself loose of his European origins enough to be able to live as an Oriental . Every scene in the Pilgrimage reveals him as winning out over the obstacles confronting him , a foreigner , in a ...
... Burton's freedom was in having shaken himself loose of his European origins enough to be able to live as an Oriental . Every scene in the Pilgrimage reveals him as winning out over the obstacles confronting him , a foreigner , in a ...
Page 343
... Burton , Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al - Madinah and Meccah , ed . Isabel Burton ( London : Tylston & Edwards , 1893 ) , 1 : 9 , 108-10 . 122. Richard Burton , " Terminal Essay , " in The Book of the Thousand and One Nights ...
... Burton , Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al - Madinah and Meccah , ed . Isabel Burton ( London : Tylston & Edwards , 1893 ) , 1 : 9 , 108-10 . 122. Richard Burton , " Terminal Essay , " in The Book of the Thousand and One Nights ...
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