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Said, Edward W.

Orientalism / Edward W. Said. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1979. - xi, 394 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction--Scope of orientalism: Knowing the oriental; imaginative geography and its representations, orientalizing the oriental; Projects; Crisis--Orientalist structures and restructures: Redrawn frontiers, redefined issues, secularized religion; Rational anthropology and philological laboratory / Silverstre de Sacy and Ernest Renan; Oriental residence and scholarship, the requirements of lexicography and imagination; Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French--Orientalism now: Latent and manifest orientalism; Style, expertise, vision, orientalism's worldliness; Modern Anglo-French orientalism in fullest flower; Latest phase--Afterword.

ISBN: 039474067X

LCCN: 79010497

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Orientalism.
Imperialism.
East and West.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Asia--Foreign public opinion, Occidental.
Middle East--Foreign public opinion, Occidental.
Asia--Study and teaching.
Middle East--Study and teaching.

LC Class. No.: DS12 / .S35 1979

Dewey Class. No.: 950/.07/2