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Discusses how Orientalism, a key critical concept in literary studies, has evolved and assists our reading of literature.
List of contents
Introduction Geoffrey P. Nash; Part I. Origins: 1. Styles of Orientalism in the eighteenth century Suvir Kaul; 2. The origin and development of the Oriental tale James Watt; 3. Romantic Orientalism and Occidentalism Saree Makdisi; 4. The Victorians: empire and the East Sukanya Banerjee; 5. Orientalism and Victorian fiction Daniel Bivona; 6. Orientalism and race: Aryans and Semites Christopher Hutton; 7. Orientalism and the Bible Ivan D. Kalmar; Part II. Development: 8. Said, Bhabha and the colonized subject Eleanor Byrne; 9. The Harem: gendering Orientalism Reina Lewis; 10. Orientalism and Middle East travel writing Ali Behdad; 11. Nineteenth and twentieth American Orientalism David Weir; 12. Edward Said and resistance in colonial and postcolonial literatures Valerie Kennedy; 13. Can the cosmopolitan writer be absolved of racism? Andrew C. Long; Part III. Application: 14. From Orientalism to Islamophobia Mahmut Mutman; 15. Applications of neo-Orientalism and Islamophobia in recent writing Peter Morey; 16. Orientalism and cultural translation: Middle-Eastern American writing Carol W. N. Fadda; 17. New Orientalism and the American media: New York Cleopatra and Saudi 'giggly black ghosts' Moneera Ghadeer; 18. On Orientalism's future(s) Anouar Majid; 19. The engine of survival: a future for Orientalism Patrick Williams.
About the author
Geoffrey P. Nash is a Research Associate at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London. He is the author/editor of: Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World (2016); Postcolonialism and Islam: Theory, Literature, Culture and Film (2014); Writing Muslim Identity (2012); Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism: Selected Eastern Writings (2008).
Summary
This book reviews the evolution of the concept of Orientalism as it has been explored, imagined and narrated in literature. Building upon existing scholarship, it aims to give readers a comprehensive grasp of the origins and present contours of Orientalism, and to point out future directions in this field.
