Orientalism
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
039474067X
ISBN 13
9780394740676
Category
Religion/ENG
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Pages
394
Description
Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, a critical study of the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism, the West's patronizing perceptions and fictional depictions of 'The East' - the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. Orientalism, Western scholarship about the Eastern World, was and remains inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power, and thus intellectually suspect. - from Amzon
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