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An edition of Orientalism (1978)

Orientalism

1st ed.
  • 4.2 (6 ratings) ·
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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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Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
368

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Cover of: Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics)
Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics)
August 28, 2003, Penguin Books Ltd
in English
Cover of: Orientalism
Orientalism
2003, Vintage Books
in English - 25th anniversary ed. / with a new preface by the author.
Cover of: Orientalism
Orientalism
2001, penguin
Cover of: Orientalismo
Orientalismo
2000, Companhia das Letras
Paperback in Portuguese - undefined edition
Cover of: Orientalism
Orientalism
October 1998, Penguin Books
in Spanish
Cover of: Orientalism
Orientalism
1994, Vintage Books
in English - 25th Anniversary Edition
Cover of: Orientalism
Orientalism
1978, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
950/.07/2
Library of Congress
DS12 .S24 1978

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 368 p. ;
Number of pages
368

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4740907M
Internet Archive
orientalism0000said_r4m0
ISBN 10
0394428145
LCCN
78051803
OCLC/WorldCat
4004102
Library Thing
257

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"On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on ""the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt."""
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