Title Orientalism / Edward W. Said

Edition [New preface edition] Published London : Penguin, 2003 ©2003

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Description xxv, 396 pages ; 20 cm Series Penguin classics Penguin classics. Contents Preface (2003) -- Introduction -- 1. The scope of Orientalism. Knowing the Oriental -- Imaginative geography and its representations : Orientalizing the Oriental -- Projects -- Crisis -- 2. Orientalist structures and restructures. Redrawn frontiers, redefined issues, secularized religion -- Silverstre de Sacy and Ernest Renan : rational anthropology and philological laboratory -- Oriental residence and scholarship : the requirements of lexicography and imagination -- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French -- 3. Orientalism now. Latent and manifest Orientalism -- Style, expertise, vision : Orientalism's worldiness -- Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in fullest flower -- The latest phase -- Afterword (1995) Summary For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism Notes Originally published: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Reprinted with a new afterword 1995. Reprinted with a new preface 2003 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1978 reprinted with new preface, 2003 Subject Civilization, Oriental -- In literature. Orientalism. Civilization, Oriental, in literature. East and West. Imperialism. SUBJECT Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606 -- Foreign public opinion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005785 Middle East http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090501 -- Foreign public opinion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005785 Middle East http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090501 -- Foreign opinion, Occidental Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606 -- Foreign opinion, Occidental Middle East -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090504 Orient http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040515 -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005029 Middle East http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090501 -- Foreign public opinion, Occidental Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606 -- Foreign public opinion, Occidental Asia -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008624 Middle East -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090514 Orient http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040515 -- Foreign public opinion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005785 Author Said, Edward W., author LC no. 00002538 ISBN 0141187425 paperback 9780141187426 paperback

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