Orientalism

Orientalism
ISBN-10
1317875338
ISBN-13
9781317875338
Series
Orientalism
Category
History
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2014-06-11
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Alexander Lyon Macfie

Description

At a crucial moment in the history of relations of East and West, Orient and Occident, Christianity and Islam, Orientalism provides a timely account of the subject and the debate. In the 1960s and 1970s a powerful assault was launched on 'orientalism', led by Edward Said. The debate ranged far beyond the traditional limits of 'dry-as-dust' orientalism, involving questions concerning the nature of identity, the nature of imperialism, Islamophobia, myth, Arabism, racialism, intercultural relations and feminism. Charting the history of the vigorous debate about the nature of orientalism, this timely account revisits the arguments and surveys the case studies inspired by that debate.

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