Debating Orientalism [electronic resource] /
Bernard, Anna.author.
Attwell, David.author.
Elmarsafy, Z.editor.
Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy.
Orientalism : legacies of a performance / Anna Bernard and Ziad Elmarsafy -- Orientalism's contribution to world history and Middle Eastern history thirty-five years later / Peter Gran -- Flaubert's camel : Said's animus / Robert Irwin -- Said before Said / Donna Landry -- Orienting America : Sanskrit and modern scholarship in the United States, 1836-1894 / Rajeshwari Mishka Sinha -- Re-Arabizing the de-Arabized : the Mistaaravim unit of the Palmach / Yonatan Mendel -- Cannibalizing Iraq : topos of a new orientalism / Moneera al-Ghadeer -- Confessions of a dangerous (Arab) mind : Orientalism and confession beyond Said and Foucault / Andrea Teti -- The "war on terror" and the backlash against Orientalism / Robert Spencer -- "The defeat of narrative by vision" : Said and the image / Nicholas Tromans -- How much is enough Said? : some gendered responses to Orientalism / Joanna de Groot -- Said's impact : lessons for literary critics / Nicholas Harrison.
Said, Edward W.
Said, Edward W.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature   .
Oriental literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Asian Literature.