Orientalism : : A Reader / / A. L. Macfie.

In the period of decolonisation that followed the end of the Second World War a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalism - the theory and practice of representing 'the Orient' in Western thought -accusing its practitioners of misrepresentation,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I FOUNDATIONS OF A MYTH
  • 1 THE INDIAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT
  • 2 GORGEOUS EDIFICES
  • 3 THE BRITISH RULE IN INDIA
  • PART II THE RISE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES
  • 4 LES COMMENCEMENTS DE L’ORIENTAUSME
  • 5 THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF CALCUTTA
  • PART III FOUNDATIONS OF A CRITIQUE
  • 6 APPEARANCE AND THE THING-IN-ITSELF
  • 7 ON HEGEMONY AND DIRECT RULE
  • 8 TRUTH AND POWER
  • PART IV ORIENTALISM IN CRISIS
  • 9 ORIENTALISM IN CRISIS
  • 10 ENGLISH-SPEAKING ORIENTALISTS
  • PART V AN APOLOGY FOR ORIENTALISM
  • 11 APOLOGY FOR ORIENTALISM
  • PART VI AN ELABORATE A C COUNT
  • 12 SHATTERED MYTHS
  • 13 ARABS, ISLAM AND THE DOGMAS OF THE WEST
  • 14 MY THESIS
  • 15 ON FLAUBERT
  • 16 LATENT AND MANIFEST ORIENTALISM
  • PART VII A MARXIST INTERPRETATION
  • 17 MARX AND THE END OF ORIENTALISM
  • PART VIII AN AMERICAN RESPONSE
  • 18 THREE ARAB CRITIQUES OF ORIENTALISM
  • PART IX FURTHER CRITIQUES
  • 19 A SECOND CRITIQUE OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING ORIENTALISTS
  • 20 ON THE ORIENTALISTS AGAIN
  • PART X EDWARD SAID’S ORIENTALISM: REVIEWS AND REVIEW ARTICLES
  • 21 ORIENTALISM AT THE SERVICE OF IMPERIALISM
  • 22 HERMENEUTICS VERSUS HISTORY
  • 23 ENOUGH SAID
  • 24 ORIENTALISM AND ORIENTALISM IN REVERSE
  • 25 ORIENTALISM: A BLACK PERSPECTIVE
  • 26 THE QUESTION OF ORIENTALISM
  • PART XI QUALIFICATIONS AND ELABORATION
  • 27 ‘GORGEOUS EAST’ VERSUS ‘LAND OF REGRETS’
  • 28 ORIENTALIST CONSTRUCTIONS OF INDIA
  • 29 BETWEEN ORIENTALISM AND HISTORICISM
  • 30 HUMANISING THE ARABS
  • 31 INDOLOGY, POWER, AND THE CASE OF GERMANY
  • 32 TURKISH EMBASSY LETTERS
  • 33 HISTORY, THEORY AND THE ARTS
  • PART XII ORIENTALISM AND FEMINISM
  • 34 ORIENTALISM, HINDUISM AND FEMINISM
  • PART XIII ORIENTALISM RECONSIDERED
  • 35 ORIENTALISM RECONSIDERED
  • PART XIV BEYOND ORIENTALISM
  • 36 EXIT FROM ORIENTALISM
  • 37 FROM ORIENTALISM TO GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS