Orientalism

by Edward W. Said

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Auteur(s)

Edward W. Said

Uitgever

London : Penguin, 2019 [1978]

Omvang

406 p., 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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Trefwoorden

(de)colonisation , inequity - imperialism

Locatie in de bibliotheek

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

Opmerkingen

Includes notes, index