After orientalism : critical perspectives on western agency and eastern re-appropriations / edited by François Pouillon, Jean-Claude Vatin.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Colloque "L'orientalisme et après? - Méditations, appropriations, contestations"

Contributor:

Pouillon, François, editor.

Vatin, Jean-Claude, editor.

Conference Name:

Colloque "L'orientalisme et après? - Méditations, appropriations, contestations" (2011 : Paris, France)

Colloque "L'orientalisme et après? - Meditations, appropriations, contestations" (2011 : Paris, France)

Series:

Leiden studies in Islam and society ; Volume 2.

Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, 2210-8920 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orientalism--Congresses.

Orientalism.

East and West--Congresses.

East and West.

Middle East--Civilization--Congresses.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : BRILL, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The debate on Orientalism began some fifty years ago in the wake of decolonization. While initially considered a turning point, Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) was in fact part of a larger academic endeavor – the political critique of “colonial science” – that had already significantly impacted the humanities and social sciences. In a recent attempt to broaden the debate, the papers collected in this volume, offered at various seminars and an international symposium held in Paris in 2010-2011, critically examine whether Orientalism, as knowledge and as creative expression, was in fact fundamentally subservient to Western domination. By raising new issues, the papers shift the focus from the center to the peripheries, thus analyzing the impact on local societies of a major intellectual and institutional movement that necessarily changed not only their world, but the ways in which they represented their world. World history, which assumes a plurality of perspectives, leads us to observe that the Saidian critique applies to powers other than Western European ones — three case studies are considered here: the Ottoman, Russian (and Soviet), and Chinese empires. Other essays in this volume proceed to analyze how post-independence states have made use of the tremendous accumulation of knowledge and representations inherited from previous colonial regimes for the sake of national identity, as well as how scholars change and adapt what was once a hegemonic discourse for their own purposes. What emerges is a new landscape in which to situate research on non-Western cultures and societies, and a road-map leading readers beyond the restrictive dichotomy of a confrontation between West and East. With contributions by: Elisabeth Allès; Léon Buskens; Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Baudouin Dupret; Edhem Eldem; Olivier Herrenschmidt; Nicholas S. Hopkins; Robert Irwin; Mouldi Lahmar; Sylvette Larzul; Jean-Gabriel Leturcq; Jessica Marglin; Claire Nicholas; Emmanuelle Perrin; Alain de Pommereau; François Pouillon; Zakaria Rhani; Emmanuel Szurek; Jean-Claude Vatin; Mercedes Volait

Contents:

Front Matter / François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin

Orientalism, Dead or Alive? A French History / François Pouillon

The Real Discourses of Orientalism / Robert Irwin

The Invention of Islamic Law: A History of Western Studies of Islamic Normativity and Their Spread in the Orient / Léon Buskens and Baudouin Dupret

The Forbidden Orient! Endo-Exoticism and Anti-Anthropological Nationalism in the Writings of Some Contemporary Moroccan Intellectuals / Zakaria Rhani

Between Tolerance and Persecution: North Africans on North African Jewish History / Jessica M. Marglin

“It is Good to Know Something of Various Peoples’ Ways of Life” / Olivier Herrenschmidt

The Ottoman Empire and Orientalism: An Awkward Relationship / Edhem Eldem

“Go West”: Variations on Kemalist Orientalism / Emmanuel Szurek

Some Side Effects of a Progressive Orientology: Academic Visions of Islam in the Soviet South after Stalin / Stéphane A. Dudoignon

Minority Nationalities in China: Internal Orientalism / Elisabeth Allès

The Museum of Arab Art in Cairo (1869–2014): A Disoriented Heritage? / Jean-Gabriel Leturcq

A Genealogy of Egyptian Folklore: Ahmad Amîn as a Reader of Edward Lane / Emmanuelle Perrin

Mohamed Galal (1906–1943): A Pioneering Egyptian Anthropologist / Nicholas S. Hopkins

Italian Colonial Knowledge and Identity-Shaping in Libya: A Dual Instrumentalization of Endogenous Anthropological Knowledge / Mouldi Lahmar

Arab Receptions of the Arabian Nights: Between Contemptuous Dismissal and Recognition / Sylvette Larzul

The Invention of the Moroccan Carpet / Alain de Pommereau

Creative Differences, Creating Difference: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Fashion and Textiles / Claire Nicholas

Middle Eastern Collections of Orientalist Painting at the Turn of the 21st Century: Paradoxical Reversal or Persistent Misunderstanding? / Mercedes Volait

After Orientalism: Returning the Orient to the Orientals / Jean-Claude Vatin

List of Contributors / François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin

Index / François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28253-X

OCLC:

889181080

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004282537 DOI