Orientalism
New York : Vintage Books, [1994]
Format: Book
Edition: Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Description: xi, 394 pages ; 21 cm
The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University, examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.
Contents:
Knowing the oriental -- Imaginative geography and its representations : orientalizing the oriental -- Projects -- Crisis -- 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 -- Latent and manifest orientalism -- Style, expertise, vision : orientalism's worldliness -- Modern Anglo-French orientalism in fullest flower -- The last phase.
Subjects:
Orientalism.
Imperialism.
East and West.
Asia -- Foreign public opinion.
Middle East -- Foreign public opinion.
Asia -- Study and teaching.
Middle East -- Study and teaching.
Orientalism.
Imperialism.
East and West.
Asia -- Foreign public opinion.
Middle East -- Foreign public opinion.
Asia -- Study and teaching.
Middle East -- Study and teaching.
ISBN:
039474067X
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Includes bibliographical references and index.