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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... Nerval . " He was right about the place , of course , especially so far as a European was concerned . The Orient was almost a European invention , and had been since antiquity a place of romance , exotic beings , haunting memories and ...
... Nerval . " He was right about the place , of course , especially so far as a European was concerned . The Orient was almost a European invention , and had been since antiquity a place of romance , exotic beings , haunting memories and ...
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... Nerval or Flaubert . And why would it not be possible to employ both perspectives together , or one after the other ? Isn't there an obvious danger of distortion ( of precisely the kind that academic Orientalism has always been prone to ) ...
... Nerval or Flaubert . And why would it not be possible to employ both perspectives together , or one after the other ? Isn't there an obvious danger of distortion ( of precisely the kind that academic Orientalism has always been prone to ) ...
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... Nerval . There is some signifi- cance in the fact that the two most renowned German works on the Orient , Goethe's Westöstlicher Diwan and Friedrich Schlegel's Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier , were based respectively on a ...
... Nerval . There is some signifi- cance in the fact that the two most renowned German works on the Orient , Goethe's Westöstlicher Diwan and Friedrich Schlegel's Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier , were based respectively on a ...
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... Nerval , Flaubert , and Richard Burton . He was an authority whose use was an imperative for anyone writing or think- ing about the Orient , not just about Egypt : when Nerval borrows passages verbatim from Modern Egyptians it is to use ...
... Nerval , Flaubert , and Richard Burton . He was an authority whose use was an imperative for anyone writing or think- ing about the Orient , not just about Egypt : when Nerval borrows passages verbatim from Modern Egyptians it is to use ...
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... Nerval , or Scott , were constrained in what they could either experience of or say about the Orient . For Orientalism was ultimately a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar ( Europe ...
... Nerval , or Scott , were constrained in what they could either experience of or say about the Orient . For Orientalism was ultimately a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar ( Europe ...
Contents
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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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