Debating Orientalism

by Anna Bernard and David Attwell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230303528
• ISBN13: 9780230303522
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"