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Comments on Orientalism. Two Reviews: Representation and Aggression
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2009
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Orientalism is a study of the genesis, evolution, and reproduction of aspecific Western tradition of knowledge concerned with the Mashreq, orthe eastern part of the Arabo-Islamic world. This tradition, however, isnot one of pure and objective knowledge; rather it is the elaboration of aset of fantasies and beliefs that is subsequently used as the basis forWestern colonial enterprise.
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- The Meetings of East and West
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- Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1980
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Said, Edward W., Orientalism, New York: Pantheon Books, Inc. 1978.Google Scholar
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