OrientalismA groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... French 166 Chapter 3 Orientalism Now Latent and Manifest Orientalism 201 Style, Expertise, Vision: Orientalism & Worldliness 226 Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in Fullest Flower 255 The Latest Phase 284 Afterword 329 Notes 353 Index ...
... , West Africa, the French armies of Indochina and North Africa, came the American advisers to the Pentagon and the White House, using the same clichés, the same demeaning stereotypes, the same justification xx ORIENTALISM.
... French to pontificate about how the democracy domino effect is just what the Arab world needs. Combative and woefully ignorant policy experts, whose world experience is limited to the Beltway, grind out books on “terrorism” and ...
... French journalist wrote regretfully of the gutted downtown area that “it had once seemed to belong to . . . the ... French readers. Americans will not feel quite the same about the Orient, which for them is much more likely to be ...
... French cultural enterprise, a project whose dimensions take in such disparate realms as the imagination itself, the whole of India and the Levant, the Biblical texts and the Biblical lands, the spice trade, colonial armies and a long ...
Contents
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Projects | 73 |
Crisis | 92 |
Redrawn Frontiers Redefined Issues Secularized | 113 |
Rational | 123 |
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages British and French | 166 |
Latent and Manifest Orientalism | 201 |
Orientalism Worldliness | 226 |
Modern AngloFrench Orientalism in Fullest Flower | 255 |
The Latest Phase | 284 |
Afterword | 329 |