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In this book, a challenge to established Western attitudes towards the East, the author gives the reader a cultural study of the East.
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- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0710000405
- ISBN 13 9780710000408
- BindingHardcover
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Orientalism
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Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
(1978)
ISBN 10: 0710000405
ISBN 13: 9780710000408
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Book Description Dark Blue Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1978. First Edition. xiii, 369pp. Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian American academic, literary critic and political activist. Educated in the Western canon at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East. In this book he establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the West's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of The East, i.e. the Orient. Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of the Western scholarship about the Eastern World, is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power. The book is bound in the original dark blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with bumping to the spine ends and fading along about 1/8" to 1/4" of the top edge of the boards and spine. There is some wear to the titling on the spine and front board. The contents are tight and clean with a small water stain on the fore edge of the rear fixed endpaper. There is no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with light bumping to the spine ends and top corners and a nick on the top front corner. The reverse of the wrapper shows some yellowing along the top and bottom edges. Seller Inventory # gLitSaid01
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Orientalism
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xi, 368 pages ; 25 cm. First edition. Seller Inventory # 19jbew519
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Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient: Western Concepts of the Orient
Published by
Routledge & Kegan Paul
(1978)
ISBN 10: 0710000405
ISBN 13: 9780710000408
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slight foxing to paper edge and browning to inner edge of dustwrapper - otherwise very good. Seller Inventory # c00484
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