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• Title:Orientalism / Edward W. Said.
  
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• Author/Creator:Said, Edward W.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Vintage Books, [2003]
  

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  • Location:Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY reserve collection (Floor 3)
    
  • Call Number: DS12 .S24 2003a
    
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:c.2 On loan - Due on 05-15-2024
    c.3 Returned - 04-22-2024
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS12 .S24 2003a
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Orientalism.
  East and West.
  Imperialism.
  Asia--Foreign public opinion, Western.
  Middle East--Foreign public opinion, Western.
  Asia--Study and teaching.
  Middle East--Study and teaching.
  Asia--Foreign public opinion.
  Middle East--Foreign public opinion.
  
• Edition:25th Anniversary edition / with a new preface by the author.
  
• Description:xxx, 394 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:The author presents a critique of the Western World's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East and Arab people. In this study, the author traces the origins of the West's concept of "Orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East.
  
• Notes:"Preface to the 25th anniversary edition" dated: May 2003.
  "Vintage Books edition 1979 ... afterword copyright ©1994"--Verso title page.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-375) and index.
  
• ISBN:039474067X (pbk.)
  9780394740676 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Preface to the 25th anniversary edition
  Introduction
  The scope of Orientalism. Knowing the Oriental ; Imaginative geography and its representations : Orientalizing the Oriental ; Projects ; Crisis
  Orientalist structures and restructures. Redrawn frontiers, redefined issues, secularized religion ; Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan : rational anthropology and philological laboratory ; Oriental residence and scholarship : the requirements of lexicography and imagination ; Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French
  Orientalism now. Latent and manifest Orientalism ; Style, expertise, vision : Orientalism's worldliness ; Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in fullest flower ; The latest phase
  Afterword.