TY - BOOK ID - 1181088 TI - Orientalism PY - 1985 VL - 198 SN - 0140551980 9780140551983 PB - Harmondsworth: Penguin books, DB - UniCat KW - Comparative literature KW - Thematology KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1181088 AB - In this highly acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering Orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation – a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the ‘otherness’ 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 West’s romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. In his new preface, Said examines the effect of continuing Western imperialism after recent events in Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq. ER -