Orientalism
The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.
The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394740676 (039474067X)
ASIN: 039474067X
Publish date: October 12th 1979
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 395
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Theory
As we watch America and its allies reproducing cycles of violence, despotism and mayhem across the Middle East, it is blindingly obvious that there is something profoundly wrong with the way Western governments think and act in that region. Edward Said sets out in this book an account of two centuri...
Preface (2003)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction--OrientalismAfterword (1995)NotesIndex
"Know people, not books about people."
Said's critique of Orientalism as an academic discipline is too larded with pomo craziness, with too little analysis (one could say, none) of the actual consequences of regarding all of Asia, the Middle East, and Egypt as one homogenous conglomerate of racist stereotypes.
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