Orientalism revisited : art, land and voyage / edited by Ian Richard Netton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Netton, Ian Richard.

Series:

Culture and civilisation in the Middle East ; 35.

Culture and civilization in the Middle East ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W--Influence.

Said, Edward W.

Orientalism.

Middle East--Civilization.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets out to survey, analyse and revisit the state of the Orientalist debate, both past and present.The leitmotiv of this book is its emphasis on an intimate connection between art, land and voyage. Orientalist art of all kinds frequently derives from a consideration of the land which is encountered on a voyage or pilgrimage, a rela

Contents:

The Muslim world in British historical imaginations : re-thinking Orientalism / K.Humayun Ansari

Can the (sub)altern resist? : a dialogue between Foucault and Said / Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Edward Said and the political present / Nadia Abu El-Haj

New Orientalisms for old : articulations of the East in Raymond Schwab, Edward Said and two nineteenth century French Orientalists / Geoffrey Nash

Orientalism and Sufism : an overview / Linda Sijbrand

Orientalism in arts and crafts revisited : the modern and the anti-modern : the lessons from the Orient / John M.MacKenzie

Visual ethnography, stereotypes and photographing Algeria / Susan Slyomovics

Revisiting Edward W. Said's Palestine : between nationalism and post-Zionism / Ilan Pappé

Studies and souvenirs of Palestine and Transjordan : the revival of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the rediscovery of the Holy Land during the 19th century / Paolo Maggiolini

Arabizing the Bible : racial supersessionism in nineteenth century Christian art and Biblical scholarship / Ivan Davidson Kalmar

Orientalism and bibliolatry : framing the Holy Land in 19th century Protestant Bible customs texts / Daniel Martin Varisco

The Orient's medieval Orient(alism) : the Rihala of Sulayman al-Tajir / Nizar F.Hermes

Ibn Battuta in Wanderland : voyage as text : was Ibn Battuta an Orientalist? / Ian Richard Netton

The Maghreb and the Occident : towards the construction of an Occidentalist discourse / Zahia Smail Salhi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-15984-3

0-203-07941-8

1-283-89432-7

1-136-15985-1

9780203079416

OCLC:

823389766