Orientalism

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Pub. Date: 1979-10-12
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(30)
The Scope of Orientalism
Knowing the Oriental
31(18)
Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental
49(24)
Projects
73(19)
Crisis
92(21)
Orientalist Structures and Restructures
Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion
113(10)
Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philogical Laboratory
123(26)
Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination
149(17)
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French
166(35)
Orientalism Now
Latent and Manifest Orientalism
201(25)
Style, Expertise, Vision: Orientalism's Worldliness
226(29)
Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in Fullest Flower
255(29)
The Latest Phase
284(45)
Afterword 329(24)
Notes 353(24)
Index 377

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