Orientalism
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TextPublication details: India Penguin India 2001Description: 416 20 x 14 x 4 cmISBN: - 9780143027980
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Arthshila Ahmedabad Cluster: 3E | MISC/SAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BK00767 |
In this highly acclaimed seminal work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering Orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation-a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the ‘otherness’ of Eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West’s romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. In the preface, Said examines the continuing effects of Western imperialism and racism, manifest in the events leading up to and post 9/11, establishing Orientalism as a canonical text of cultural studies.
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