Orientalism and war
By: Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski, editors
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231703567
Subjects: East and West; Congresses; War and civilization; Military History; Orientalism; Philosophy; Orient
Notes: "[B]ased on a conference held at the University of Oxford, June 17/19, 2010"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : orientalism and war / Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski; title: Shocked by war : the non-politics of orientalism / Arjun Chowdhury; title: American orientalism at war in Korea and the United States : a hegemony of racism, repression, and amnesia / Bruce Cumings; title: Terror, the imperial presidency, and American heroism / Susan Jeffords; title: Can the insurgent speak? / Hugh Gusterson; title: Colonial wars, postcolonial specters : the anxiety of domination / Qu-nh N. Phaam and Himadeep R. Muppidi; title: Orientalism in the machine / Josef Teboho Ansorge; title: Dis/ordering the orient : scopic regimes and modern war / Derek Gregory; title: Nesting orientalisms at war : World War II and the 'memory war' in Eastern Europe / Maria Mølksoo; title: Victimhood as agency : Afghan women's memoirs / Margaret A. Mills; title: Fanon's 'Guerre des ondes': resisting the call of orientalism / John Mowitt; title: The pleasures of imperialism and the pink elephant : torture, sex, orientalism / Patricia Owens; title: Afterword / Patrick Porter.