Orientalism, Volume 10A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... individual writers , whom one would take up as individual instances of authors dealing with the Orient . In a sense the two alternatives , general and particular , are really two perspectives on the same material : in both instances one ...
... individual writers , whom one would take up as individual instances of authors dealing with the Orient . In a sense the two alternatives , general and particular , are really two perspectives on the same material : in both instances one ...
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... individual writers upon the otherwise anonymous collective body of texts constituting a discursive formation like Orientalism . The unity of the large ensemble of texts I analyze is due in part to the fact that they ' frequently refer ...
... individual writers upon the otherwise anonymous collective body of texts constituting a discursive formation like Orientalism . The unity of the large ensemble of texts I analyze is due in part to the fact that they ' frequently refer ...
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... individual life - cycle . This reversal , by which a solitary individual endows himself with timeless faculties and imposes on a society and people a personal life - span , is but the first of several operations regulating what might ...
... individual life - cycle . This reversal , by which a solitary individual endows himself with timeless faculties and imposes on a society and people a personal life - span , is but the first of several operations regulating what might ...
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