Orientalism
(Sprache: Englisch)
The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University, examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs
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The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University, examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Orientalism “
The Scope of Orientalism1. Knowing the Oriental
2. Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental
3. Projects
4. Crisis
Orientalist Structures and Restructures
1. Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion
2. Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philological Laboratory
3. Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination
4. Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French
Orientalism Now
1. Latent and Manifest Orientalism
2. Style, Expertise, Vision: Orientalism's Worldliness
3. Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in Fullest Flower
4. The Latest Phase
Autoren-Porträt von Edward W. Said
EDWARD W. SAID was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2003 in New York City.He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into 35 languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process (1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). Besides his academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and was the music critic for The Nation.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edward W. Said
- 1979, 432 Seiten, Maße: 13,3 x 20,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 039474067X
- ISBN-13: 9780394740676
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." The New York Times"Powerful and disturbing.... The theme is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted." The New York Review of Books
"Stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious.... Said observes the West observing the Arabs, and he does not like what he finds." The Observer
"An important book.... Never has there been as sustained and as persuasive a case against Orientalism as Said's." Jerusalem Post
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