Orientalism

by Edward W. Said

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Author(s)

Edward W. Said

Publication

London : Penguin, 2019 [1978]

Scope

406 Pages, 19.5 cm.

ISBN

9780099967507

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Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the West's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of The East, i.e. the Orient. Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of the Western scholarship about the Eastern World, is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power.

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Keywords

(de)colonisation , inequity - imperialism

Location

Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie

Remarks

Includes notes, index