Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
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Orientalism
Summary
Providing an overview of western attitudes towards the East, this book sets out to challenge established western views of the Orient and of the Arab and Islamic world.
Orientalism Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 The scope of orientalism: knowing the oriental; imaginative geography and its representations - orientalizing the oriental; projects; crisis. Part 2 Orientalist structures and restructures: redrawn frontiers, redfined issues, secularized religion; Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan - rational anthropology and philogical laboratory; oriental residence and scholarship - the requirements of lexicography and imagination; pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French. Part 3 Orientalism now: latent and manifest orientalism; style, expertise, vision - orientalism's worldliness; modern Anglo-French orientalism in fullest flower; the latest phase.
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GOR001395348
9780140238679
0140238670
Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19950223
416
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