Debating Orientalism / edited by Ziad Elmarsafy, Reader, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK, Anna Bernard, Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature, King's College London, UK and David Attwell, Professor of Modern Literature, Department of English and Related Literature University of York, UK.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elmarsafy, Ziad, author, editor.

Bernard, Anna, 1979- author, editor.

Contributor:

Attwell, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W.

Orientalism.

Said, Edward W. Orientalism.

Said, Edward W--Influence.

Local Subjects:

Said, Edward W.

Physical Description:

xi, 268 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

To many, Edward Said's seminal 1978 work Orientalism is an enduring touchstone, a founding text of the field of postcolonial studies and a book that continues to influence debates in literary and cultural studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, art history, history and politics. To others, however, Orientalism has serious failings, not least in blaming the wrong people - namely, Orientalists - for the crimes of European imperialism. 'Debating Orientalism' addresses the book's contemporary relevance without lionizing or demonizing its author. Bridging the gap between intellectual history and political engagement, the 12 contributors to this volume interrogate Orientalism's legacy with a view to moving the debate about this text beyond the manichean limitations within which it has all too often been imprisoned. 'Debating Orientalism' seeks to consider Orientalism's implications with a little less feeling, though no less commitment to understanding the value and political effects of engaged scholarship. Book jacket.

Contents:

Orientalism : legacies of a performance / Anna Bernard and Ziad Elmarsafy

Orientalism's contribution to world history and Middle Eastern history thirty-five years later / Peter Gran

Flaubert's camel : Said's animus / Robert Irwin

Said before Said / Donna Landry

Orienting America : Sanskrit and modern scholarship in the United States, 1836-1894 / Rajeshwari Mishka Sinha

Re-Arabizing the de-Arabized : the Mistaaravim unit of the Palmach / Yonatan Mendel

Cannibalizing Iraq : topos of a new orientalism / Moneera al-Ghadeer

Confessions of a dangerous (Arab) mind : Orientalism and confession beyond Said and Foucault / Andrea Teti

The "war on terror" and the backlash against Orientalism / Robert Spencer

"The defeat of narrative by vision" : Said and the image / Nicholas Tromans

How much is enough Said? : some gendered responses to Orientalism / Joanna de Groot

Said's impact : lessons for literary critics / Nicholas Harrison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230303522

0230303528

OCLC:

827256521