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Orientalism
Author | : Edward W. Said |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804153867 |
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More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.
The Orientalist
Author | : Tom Reiss |
Publsiher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2006-03-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780812972764 |
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A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss pursued Lev’s story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal–and sometimes as heartbreaking–as his subject’s life.
Orientalism
Author | : Alexander Lyon Macfie |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317875338 |
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At a crucial moment in the history of relations of East and West, Orient and Occident, Christianity and Islam, Orientalism provides a timely account of the subject and the debate. In the 1960s and 1970s a powerful assault was launched on 'orientalism', led by Edward Said. The debate ranged far beyond the traditional limits of 'dry-as-dust' orientalism, involving questions concerning the nature of identity, the nature of imperialism, Islamophobia, myth, Arabism, racialism, intercultural relations and feminism. Charting the history of the vigorous debate about the nature of orientalism, this timely account revisits the arguments and surveys the case studies inspired by that debate.
The Orientalist
Author | : Tom Reiss |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Authors, German |
ISBN | : 9780099483779 |
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The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to research the oil business on the Caspian Sea, and discovered a novel instead. Written on the eve of the Second World War, Ali and Nino is a captivating love story set in the glamorous city of Baku, Azerbaijan's capital. The novel's depiction of a lost cosmopolitan society is enthralling, but equally intriguing is the identity of the man who wrote it. Who was its supposed author? And why was he so forgotten that no one could agree on the simplest facts about him? For five years, Reiss tracked Lev Nussimbaum, alias Kurban Said, from a wealthy Jewish childhood in Baku, to a romantic adolescence in Persia on the run from the Bolsheviks, and an exile in Berlin as bestselling author and self-proclaimed Muslim prince. The result is a thoroughly unexpected picture of the twentieth-century - of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Author | : Lisa See |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-10-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781408821626 |
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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.
The Painted Veil
Author | : William Somerset Maugham |
Publsiher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2023-12-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547777021 |
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Garstin, a pretty upper-middle class debutante, squanders her early youth amusing herself by living a social high life, during which her domineering mother attempts to arrange a "brilliant match" for her.
Orientalist
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : East Indies |
ISBN | : MINN:31951000742438P |
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Orientalist Aesthetics
Author | : Roger Benjamin |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2003-02-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520222175 |
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Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of French Orientalist Painters provides a critical context for understanding a rich body of work, including that of indigenous Algerian artists whose careers have never before been discussed in English.".