Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse (1872-1932)

by Zeynep Çelik

A century before the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, a passionate discourse emerged in the Ottoman Empire, rebutting politicized Western representations of the East. Until the 1930s, Ottoman and early Turkish Republican intellectuals, well acquainted with the European political and cultural scene and charged with their own ideological agendas, deconstructed tired clich s about "the Orient." In this book, Zeynep elik recontextualizes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6057685350
• ISBN13: 9786057685353
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Koc University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"