OrientalismA 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. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. |
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... North- western University Press . Prentice - Hall , Inc .: Excerpt from The Persians by Aeschylus , translated by Anthony J. Podleck . Copyright © 1970 by Prentice - Hall , Inc. The Royal Asiatic Society , Great Britain and Ireland :
... North- western University Press . Prentice - Hall , Inc .: Excerpt from The Persians by Aeschylus , translated by Anthony J. Podleck . Copyright © 1970 by Prentice - Hall , Inc. The Royal Asiatic Society , Great Britain and Ireland :
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Edward W. Said. The Royal Asiatic Society , Great Britain and Ireland : Excerpt from " Louis Massignon ( 1882-1962 ) , " in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ( 1962 ) . University of California Press : Excerpts from Modern Islam : The ...
Edward W. Said. The Royal Asiatic Society , Great Britain and Ireland : Excerpt from " Louis Massignon ( 1882-1962 ) , " in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ( 1962 ) . University of California Press : Excerpts from Modern Islam : The ...
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... Asiatic women ) . The dramatic immediacy of representation in The Persians obscures the fact that the audience is watching a highly artificial enactment of what a non - Oriental has made into a symbol for the whole Orient . My analysis ...
... Asiatic women ) . The dramatic immediacy of representation in The Persians obscures the fact that the audience is watching a highly artificial enactment of what a non - Oriental has made into a symbol for the whole Orient . My analysis ...
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... Asiatic Society , the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft , and the American Oriental Society . With the growth of these societies went also an increase , all across Europe , in the number of professor- ships in Oriental studies ...
... Asiatic Society , the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft , and the American Oriental Society . With the growth of these societies went also an increase , all across Europe , in the number of professor- ships in Oriental studies ...
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... Asiatic mystery , as Disraeli once called it . Yet what has , I think , been previously overlooked is the constricted vocabulary of such a privilege , and the comparative limitations of such a vision . My argument takes it that the ...
... Asiatic mystery , as Disraeli once called it . Yet what has , I think , been previously overlooked is the constricted vocabulary of such a privilege , and the comparative limitations of such a vision . My argument takes it that the ...
Contents
31 | |
Projects | 73 |
Crisis | 92 |
Redrawn Frontiers Redefined Issues Secularized | 113 |
Rational | 123 |
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages British and French | 166 |
Latent and Manifest Orientalism | 201 |
Orientalisms Worldliness | 226 |
Modern AngloFrench Orientalism in Fullest Flower | 255 |
The Latest Phase | 284 |
Afterword | 329 |
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