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Genre/Form: | History (form) |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward W Said |
ISBN: | 039474067X 9780394740676 |
OCLC Number: | 31978068 |
Description: | xi, 394 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | 1. The scope of orientalism. Knowing the oriental ; Imaginative geography and its representations : orientalizing the oriental ; Projects ; Crisis -- 2. Orienist 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 worldliness ; Modern Anglo-French orientalism in fullest flower ; The last phase. |
Responsibility: | Edward W. Said. |
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Abstract:
The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University, examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.
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