Orientalism

by SAID, EDWARD W.

• ISBN13: 9780394740676
• ISBN10: 039474067X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780804153867
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-10-12
• Publisher: Vintage
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Summary

The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.

Author Biography

Edward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2003 in New York City.

He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into 35 languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process (1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). Besides his academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and was the music critic for The Nation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(30)
The Scope of Orientalism
Knowing the Oriental	31	(18)
Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental	49	(24)
Projects	73	(19)
Crisis	92	(21)
Orientalist Structures and Restructures
Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion	113	(10)
Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philogical Laboratory	123	(26)
Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination	149	(17)
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French	166	(35)
Orientalism Now
Latent and Manifest Orientalism	201	(25)
Style, Expertise, Vision: Orientalism's Worldliness	226	(29)
Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in Fullest Flower	255	(29)
The Latest Phase	284	(45)
Afterword	329	(24)
Notes	353	(24)
Index	377