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Orientalism : Western Conceptions Of The Orient
Author: Edward W. Said
ISBN: 9780143027980
Binding: Paper Back
Publishing Year: 2001
Publisher: Penguin
Number of Pages: 396
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INR 499.00
About Book
Now reissued with a substantial new afterword, this highly acclaimed overview of Western attitudes towards the East has become one of the canonical texts of cultural studies. ‘Very exciting…his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive.’ —John Leonard in The New York Times ‘His most important book, Orientalism established a new benchmark for discussion of the West’s skewed view of the Arab and Islamic world.’ —Simon Louvish in the New Statesman & Society ‘Edward Said speaks for interdisciplinarity as well as for monumental erudition…The breadth of reading [is] astonishing.’ —Fred Inglis in The Times Higher Education Supplement ‘A stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious essay.’ —Observer ‘Exciting…for anyone interested in the history and power of ideas.’ —J.H. Plumb in The New York Times Book Review ‘Beautifully patterned and passionately argued.’ —Nicholas Richardson in the New Statesman & Society
About Author
Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was born in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Said wrote twenty-three books which include the seminal Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism, Parallels and Paradoxes and most recently. From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap, his posthumous collected essays on the crisis in the Middle East
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