Orientalism - (Mass-Market)-(Budget-Print)

Providing an overview of western attitudes towards the East, this book sets out to challenge established western views of the Orient and of the Arab and Islamic world.

In this highly acclaimed seminal work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering Orientalism as a powerful European ideological creationÑa way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the ÔothernessÕ of Eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the WestÕs romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. In the Afterword, Said examines the effect of continuing Western imperialism.