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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... colonial exploitation.” These are common enough ways by which contemporary scholarship keeps itself pure. Perhaps it is true that most attempts to rub culture's nose in the mud of politics have been crudely iconoclastic; perhaps also ...
... colonial networks in pre-twentieth-century history; the American Oriental position since World War II has fit—I think, quite self-consciously —in the places excavated by the two earlier European powers. Then too, I believe that the ...
... colonial-minded imperialism on the other. Then too, I wish to show how all these earlier matters are reproduced more or less in American Orientalism after the Second World War. Nevertheless there is a possibly misleading aspect to my ...
... colonial expansion into the Orient, and it culminates in World War II. The very last section of Chapter Three ... colonies. All of my education, in those colonies (Palestine and Egypt) and in the United States, has been Western, and yet ...
... colonial occupation. It does not occur to Balfour, however, to let the Egyptian speak for himself, since presumably any Egyptian who would speak out is more likely to be “the agitator [who] wishes to raise difficulties” than the good ...
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 |