L'orientalisme : l'Orient créé par l'Occident

l'Orient cre e par l'Occident

422 pages

French language

Published Dec. 11, 2005 by le Grand livre du mois.

ISBN:
978-2-286-01832-0
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OCLC Number:
470413953

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Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author discusses Orientalism, defined as the West's patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. According to Said, orientalism (the Western scholarship about the Eastern World) is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power.

According to Said, in the Middle East, the social, economic, and cultural practices of the ruling Arab elites indicate they are imperial satraps who have internalized the romanticized "Arab Culture" created by French, British and, later, American Orientalists; the examples include critical analyses of the colonial literature of Joseph Conrad, which conflates a people, a time, and a place into a narrative of incident and adventure in an exotic land.

The critical application of post-structuralism in the scholarship of …

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Subjects

  • Orient et Occident
  • Orientalisme
  • E tude et enseignement

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