Skip to product information
1 of 1

Orientalism

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

Penguin

2019

9780141187426

Softcover

19.6 x 13.1 x 2.6

432 pages

Regular price 15,00 €
Regular price Sale price 15,00 €
Sale Temporarily not in stock
Tax included.

In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism.
'Beautifully patterned and passionately argued'
New Statesman

View full details