Orientalism
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420 pages · Released 1995 · Penguin Books India
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Orientalism is a foundational academic work of literary and cultural criticism examining how Western scholarship, art, and politics have historically misrepresented and stereotyped the East. This is a dense, scholarly text requiring significant maturity and background knowledge in history, literary analysis, and geopolitics to engage with meaningfully. It is appropriate only for advanced secondary students or adults and is not a children's or young adult book.
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Now reissued with a substantial new afterword, this highly acclaimed overview of Western attitudes towards the East has become one of the canonical texts of cultural studies. Very excitingâ¦his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive. John Leonard in The New York Times His most important book, Orientalism establi... Now reissued with a substantial new afterword, this highly acclaimed overview of Western attitudes towards the East has become one of the canonical texts of cultural studies. Very excitingâ¦his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive. John Leonard in The New York Times His most important book, Orientalism established a new benchmark for discussion of the West's skewed view of the Arab and Islamic world.Simon Louvish in the New Statesman & Society âEdward Said speaks for interdisciplinarity as well as for monumental erudition¦The breadth of reading [is] astonishing. Fred Inglis in The Times Higher Education Supplement A stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious essay.Observer Exciting¦for anyone interested in the history and power of ideas.J.H. Plumb in The New York Times Book Review Beautifully patterned and passionately argued. Nicholas Richardson in the New Statesman & Society
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- Asia
- Adventurous
- Classics
- History
- General
- social science
- East and West
- Study and teaching
- Foreign public opinion, Occidental
- Imperialism
- Foreign opinion, Occidental
- Orientalism
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ISBN 9780143027980 · Penguin Books India