Orientalism and the postcolonial predicament : perspectives on South Asia

By:

Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai. (editor)

Contributor(s):

Veer, Peter van der (editor)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 1993Description: viii, 355pISBN:

9780812214369

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

954 BRE

Summary: In his extraordinarily influential book Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western knowledge about the Orient in the Post-Enlightenment period has been "a systematic discourse by which Europe was able to manage--even produce--the Orient politically, sociologically, militarily, ideologically, scientifically, and imaginatively." According to Said, European and American views of the Orient created a reality in which the Oriental was forced to live. Although Said's work deals primarily with discourse about the Arab world, much of his argument has been applied to other regions of "the Orient."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Gratis Resources	Plaksha University Library	History	954 BRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		G000526
Book	Plaksha University Library	History	954 BRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003080

In his extraordinarily influential book Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western knowledge about the Orient in the Post-Enlightenment period has been "a systematic discourse by which Europe was able to manage--even produce--the Orient politically, sociologically, militarily, ideologically, scientifically, and imaginatively." According to Said, European and American views of the Orient created a reality in which the Oriental was forced to live. Although Said's work deals primarily with discourse about the Arab world, much of his argument has been applied to other regions of "the Orient."

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