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This work isn't purely comparative literature or pure academia, though. This book is an excellent practice of textual analysis, and an extremely accessible one at that.

The west and the east need a bridge, and the divisions are based on illusions.

Said looks at everything from henry kissinger's polarizing foreign policy analyses to napoleon's swindling and pilfering in egypt. Orientalism is part and parcel of imperialism, because power must be justified.

Bernard lewis points out that it was muslim nations that welcomed persecuted minorities that fled europe in the middle ages, including even jews. "if we trace orientalism back, understanding it as a *discourse* (in the foucaultian sense) we are able t... Read More

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Orientalism was a very disappointing book--disappointing because it's an excellent and probably unprecedented topic. Save your money and buy a book from bernard lewis' extensive body of work. As my title points it, it is a biased and heavy reading.

Said believes in a “popular anti-arab and anti-islamic prejudice in the west”. He is a fighter against “israeli zionism’. He deplores the identification by a number of liberal americans with zionism.

orient is characterized by despotism,fatalism and sensuality. Saying that jane austen in mansfield park is an orientalist is complete rubbish!

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Audio book quality and narration are quite good.

’ orientalism said articulates, is ‘a way of coming to terms with the orient that is based on the orient’s special place in eu... Read More

But it’s also mixed with the idea that scholarship does not necessarily have truth as its goal, but should instead correct inequality.

His perhaps finest assertion was that “orientalism failed to identify with the human experience.

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Orientialism is undoubtedly a modern classic but, also, a deservedly controversial one.

Competitiveness

And i also cheer for works that can see other places than europe as the center of the world.

The authority of academics, institutions, and governments can accrue to it, surrounding it with still greater prestige than its... Read More

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This product had a total of 1,843 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 21 2023.