LEADER 04621oam 22006134a 450 001 9910156241503321 005 20220912045913.0 010 $a9780295987583 010 $a0295987588 024 7 $a10.1515/9780295741642 035 $a(CKB)3710000000984232 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4858168 035 $a(OCoLC)1289517710 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_102746 035 $a(Perlego)723908 035 $a(DE-B1597)725941 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780295741642 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000984232 100 $a20180710h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReading Orientalism : $eSaid and the Unsaid / $fDaniel Martin Varisco 205 $asecond edition 210 1$aSeattle :$cUniversity of Washington Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ[2017] 215 $a1 online resource (xxviii, 501 pages) 225 0 $aPublications on the Near East 300 $aFirst publised in 2007. 311 08$a9780295741642 311 08$a0295741643 311 08$a9780295741628 311 08$a0295741627 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 423-488) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tTo the Reader -- $tPreface to the 2017 Edition -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Orienting Orientalism -- $tI ?One That Cannot Now Be Rewritten? -- $tII Defin[ess]ing Orientalism -- $tIII Verbalizing an Orient -- $tIV The Growth (Benign, Cancerous, or Otherwise) of Orientalism -- $t2 The Said and the Unsaid in Said?s Magnum Opus Orientale -- $tI Dissing Orientalism: All That Said Has Done -- $tII Drawing the Fault Lines -- $tIII Self-Critique More Than Mere Image -- $tIV A Novel Argument out of Blurred Genres -- $t3 The Seductive Charms of and Against Orientalism -- $tI Presenting and Representing Orientalism -- $tII The Essential[ism] Problem -- $tIII What Is Said (but True?) About Said -- $tIV Beyond the Binary -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 8 $aThe late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our time, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Much of his reputation derives from the phenomenal multidisciplinary influence of his 1978 book Orientalism. Said's seminal polemic analyzes novels, travelogues, and academic texts to argue that a dominant discourse of West over East has warped virtually all past European and American representation of the Near East. But despite the book's wide acclaim, no systematic critical survey of the rhetoric in Said's representation of Orientalism and the resulting impact on intellectual culture has appeared until today. Drawing on the extensive discussion of Said's work in more than 600 bibliographic entries, Daniel Martin Varisco has written an ambitious intellectual history of the debates that Said's work has sparked in several disciplines, highlighting in particular its reception among Arab and European scholars. While pointing out Said's tendency to essentialize and privilege certain texts at the expense of those that do not comfortably it his theoretical framework, Varisco analyzes the extensive commentary the book has engendered in Oriental studies, literary and cultural studies, feminist scholarship, history, political science, and anthropology. He employs "critical satire" to parody the exaggerated and pedantic aspects of post-colonial discourse, including Said's profound underappreciation of the role of irony and reform in many of the texts he cites. The end result is a companion volume to Orientalism and the vast research it inspired. Rather than contribute to dueling essentialisms, Varisco provides a path to move beyond the binary of East versus West and the polemics of blame. Reading Orientalism is the most comprehensive survey of Said's writing and thinking to date. It will be of strong interest to scholars of Middle East studies, anthropology, history, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, and literary studies. 410 0$aPublications on the Near East, University of Washington. 606 $aEast and West 606 $aOrientalism 607 $aMiddle East$xStudy and teaching 607 $aAsia$xStudy and teaching 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEast and West. 615 0$aOrientalism. 676 $a303.48/2182105 700 $aVarisco$b Daniel Martin$01086915 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156241503321 996 $aReading orientalism$92750323 997 $aUNINA