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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Page 169
... writing was to be a fresh new repository of Oriental experience— but , as we shall see , even this project usually ( but not always ) re- solved itself into the reductionism of the Orientalistic . The reasons are complex , and they have ...
... writing was to be a fresh new repository of Oriental experience— but , as we shall see , even this project usually ( but not always ) re- solved itself into the reductionism of the Orientalistic . The reasons are complex , and they have ...
Page 175
... writing , which , if his name will live , has been enough , and if it will not live , has been too much.88 These ... writing , like the token inscription of his name on a Pyramid , would signify his self ; if not , if he had not ...
... writing , which , if his name will live , has been enough , and if it will not live , has been too much.88 These ... writing , like the token inscription of his name on a Pyramid , would signify his self ; if not , if he had not ...
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... writers and scholars . Orientalism can thus be re- garded as a manner of regularized ( or Orientalized ) writing , vision , and study , dominated by imperatives , perspectives , and ideological biases ostensibly suited to the Orient ...
... writers and scholars . Orientalism can thus be re- garded as a manner of regularized ( or Orientalized ) writing , vision , and study , dominated by imperatives , perspectives , and ideological biases ostensibly suited to the Orient ...
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