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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... Literature and Society ( editor ) The World , the Text , and the Critic After the Last Sky ( with Jean Mohr ) Blaming the Victims ( editor ) Musical Elaborations Culture and Imperialism The Politics of Dispossession Representations of ...
... Literature and Society ( editor ) The World , the Text , and the Critic After the Last Sky ( with Jean Mohr ) Blaming the Victims ( editor ) Musical Elaborations Culture and Imperialism The Politics of Dispossession Representations of ...
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... literature , that the victims of empire wail on while their country goes to the dogs . But what a shallow calculation of the imperial intrusion that is , how summarily it scants the immense distortion introduced by the empire into the ...
... literature , that the victims of empire wail on while their country goes to the dogs . But what a shallow calculation of the imperial intrusion that is , how summarily it scants the immense distortion introduced by the empire into the ...
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... literature , I am old enough to have been trained forty years ago in the field of comparative literature , whose leading ideas go back to Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . Before that I must mention the ...
... literature , I am old enough to have been trained forty years ago in the field of comparative literature , whose leading ideas go back to Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . Before that I must mention the ...
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... literature from Homer to Virginia Woolf ; but reading the 1951 essay one senses that for Auerbach the great book he wrote was an elegy for a period when people could interpret texts philologically , concretely , sensitively , and ...
... literature from Homer to Virginia Woolf ; but reading the 1951 essay one senses that for Auerbach the great book he wrote was an elegy for a period when people could interpret texts philologically , concretely , sensitively , and ...
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... literature or of classical philology are fraught with or have unmediated - political significance is a very large question that I have tried to treat in some detail elsewhere . " What I am interested in doing now is suggesting how the ...
... literature or of classical philology are fraught with or have unmediated - political significance is a very large question that I have tried to treat in some detail elsewhere . " What I am interested in doing now is suggesting how the ...
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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