Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author discusses Orientalism, defined as the West's patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. According to Said, orientalism (the Western scholarship about the Eastern World) …
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Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author discusses Orientalism, defined as the West's patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. According to Said, orientalism (the Western scholarship about the Eastern World) is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power.
According to Said, in the Middle East, the social, economic, and cultural practices of the ruling Arab elites indicate they are imperial satraps who have internalized the romanticized "Arab Culture" created by French, British and, later, American Orientalists; the examples include critical analyses of the colonial literature of Joseph Conrad, which conflates a people, a time, and a place into a narrative of incident and adventure in an exotic land.
The critical application of post-structuralism in the scholarship of Orientalism influenced the development of literary theory, cultural criticism, and the field of Middle Eastern studies, especially regarding how academics practice their intellectual inquiry when examining, describing, and explaining the Middle East. The scope of Said's scholarship established Orientalism as a foundation text in the field of post-colonial culture studies, which examines the denotations and connotations of Orientalism, and the history of a country's post-colonial period.
As a public intellectual, Edward Said debated Orientalism with historians and scholars of area studies, notably, the historian Bernard Lewis, who described the thesis of Orientalism as "anti-Western". For subsequent editions of Orientalism, Said wrote an "Afterword" (1995) and a "Preface" (2003)addressing criticisms of the content, substance, and style of the work as cultural criticism. (Wikipedia)
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- 257
- BNF ID:
- 16180692z
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Orientalism
Hardcover, 395 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1978 by Pantheon Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-023867-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 209904
L'Orientalisme, l'Orient créé par l'occident
Paperback, 422 pages
Published March 26, 1997 by Seuil.
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- 978-2-02-030287-6Copied ISBN!
Orientalismo / Orientalism (Ensayo-Historia / Historay Essay)
Paperback, 512 pages
Spanish language
Published July 31, 2003 by Debolsillo.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9759-767-8Copied ISBN!
Orientalism
394 pages
English language
Published April 5, 1994 by Vintage Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-394-74067-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 891081280
Orientalism
Paperback, 416 pages
Published Dec. 11, 2001 by Penguin India.
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- 978-0-14-302798-0Copied ISBN!
Orientalism
368 pages
English language
Published April 5, 1978 by Pantheon Books.
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- 978-0-394-42814-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 4004102
Orientalismo
Paperback
Portuguese language
Published Dec. 11, 2000 by Companhia das Letras.
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- 978-85-7164-133-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 55936103
Orientalismo
Hardcover, 512 pages
Published May 19, 2016 by DEBATE, Debate.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9992-615-5Copied ISBN!
L'orientalisme : l'Orient créé par l'Occident
422 pages
French language
Published Dec. 11, 2005 by le Grand livre du mois.
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- 978-2-286-01832-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 470413953
L'orientalisme : l'Orient créé par l'Occident
422 pages
French language
Published Dec. 11, 2005 by le Grand livre du mois.
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- 978-2-286-01832-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 470413953
Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics)
432 pages
Published Aug. 28, 2003 by Penguin Books Ltd.
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- 978-0-14-118742-6Copied ISBN!
L'orientalisme
French language
Published Dec. 5, 2015 by Éditions Points.
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- 978-2-7578-5307-8Copied ISBN!
Orientalism
368 pages
English language
Published April 5, 1980 by Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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- 978-0-7100-0555-7Copied ISBN!
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