Orientalism

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With a new preface by the author.In this highly acclaimed 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 his new preface, Said examines the effect of continuing Western imperialism after recent events in Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq. Best Download Orientalism [ by ] Edward W. Said [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr The following is a true story Me, in a San Franscisco bar reading Orientalism.The blonde girl next to me reading over my shoulder So what s Orientalism I explain as best I can in a couple sentences Her There are so many isms in Asia lik...There s a curious double standard between what we expect from White guy authors compared to authors of any other background When an author is a Native American, for example, we tend to expect their books to deliver to us the Native American experience If the author is a woman, we tend to expect that her book will show us the female perspective to the degree that fema...This is a fascinatingly interesting book It is also a book that is virtually required reading if you are going to say anything at all about post colonialism Whether you agree or disagree with the central theme of the book is almost beside the point This work is seminal and landmark so it can be avoided only at your own cost.I ll get to the central idea of the book in a second, but first some advice for people thinking of reading it I think, if I only wanted to get an idea of what the book This is a fascinatingly interesting book It is also a book that is virtually required reading if you are going to say anything at all about post colonialism Whether you agree or disagree with the central theme of the book is almost beside the point This work is seminal and landmark so it can be avoided only at your own cost.I ll get to the central idea of the book in a second, but first some advice for people thinking of reading it I think, if I only wanted to get an idea of what the book was about, but didn t have time to read 305 pages or so, that I would read th...Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn t trust the evidence of one s eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mEvery single empire in...An amazing classic book from the late Edward Sa d about the origins of the Western view of the Orient that shaped literature and music in the 17th 20th century It is a penetrating view of various racial stereotypes of Arab peoples dressed in sheets smoking hookahs and generally under educated and prone to laziness and violence that pervades all levels of society and served the interests of colonialism to appease consciences of all the violence and subjugation that occurred in China, India the An amazing classic book from the late Edward Sa d about the origins of the Western view of the Orient that shaped literature and music in the 17th 20th century It is a penetrating view of various racial stereotypes of Arab peoples dressed in sheets smoking hookahs and generally under educated and prone to laziness and violence that pervades all levels of society and served the interests of colonialism to appease ....Yes in many ways, Said s Orientalism is a classic And he s right about some things Western art and literature created a whole fantasy world about the Orient which included the Balkans and Russia over the last few centuries Western scholarship about North Africa or the Middle East or India could be and was used by colonial powers But as critics especially Bernard Lewis and Robert Irwin have pointed out, Said took a handful of serious ideas and created his own fantasy world of Ori Yes in many ways, Said s Orientalism is a classic And he s right about some things Western art and literature created a whole fantasy world about the Orient which included the Balkans and Russia over the last few centuries Western scholarship about North Africa or the Middle East or India could be and was used by colonial powers But as critics especially Bernard Lewis and Robert Irwin have pointed out, Said took a handful of serious ideas and created his own fantasy world of Orientalism destroying, as Lewis lamented, a perfectly honorable scholarly term Said and his followers very nearly argue that any Western study of the Orient is invalid and nefarious from the start, and that any scholarship by Westerners is a tool of ...Obviously this is a must read, which has been much drawn on and critiqued by later post anti colonial writers I have just read the copious notes I made when I read it in 2007 sort of ironic that I read a westerner s gloss rather than re reading the original and noted some points of particular interestJohn of Segovia proposed a conference with Islam designed to produce mass conversion even if it were to last ten years it would be less expensive and damaging than war To me this is a perfe Obviously this is a must read, which has been much drawn on and critiqued by later post anti colonial writers I have just read the copious notes I made when I read it in 2007 sort of ironic that I read a westerner s gloss rather than re reading the original and noted some points of particular interestJohn of Segovia proposed a conference with Islam designed to produce mass conversion even if it were to last ten years it would be less expensive and damaging than war To me this is a perfect example of the assumption that in an objective rational comparison Islam the Orient will be found inferior to Christianity the West It sounds absurd, yet the same attitude is reproduced constantly, incl...Orientalism is a masterpiece of comparative literature studies and deconstruction, published in 1978 it is arguably Said s most rigorous piece but undoubtedly his most influential This is a examination of the academic discipline of Oriental Studies, which has a long history most of the European universities Oriental Studies is a pastiche areas of study which include philology, linguistics, ethnography, and the interpretation of culture through the discovery, recovery, compilation, and translat Orientalism is a masterpiece of comparative literature studies and deconstruction, published in 1978 it is arguabl...

Orientalism
  • English
  • 24 February 2018
  • Paperback
  • 395 pages
  • 039474067X
  • Edward W. Said
  • Orientalism