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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Key Contemporary Thinkers
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Works by Said
Works by other authors
Introduction
Edward Said: a significant figure
A man of more than one world
Early criticism: from Joseph Conrad to The World, the Text, and the Critic
Overview
1 Orientalism
Introduction
The scope and arguments of Orientalism
The question of definition
Contradictory methods and values: Foucault, Gramsci and humanism
Gender in Orientalism: a neglected factor
Conclusion: Said, Orientalism and the question of positionality
2 Imperialism in the Middle East: Palestine, Israel and the USA
Introduction
Permission to narrate
Modifying the discursive framework
The lonely critical voice and the search for an alternative
Questions of representation, position and objectivity
Conclusion
3 After Orientalism: Culture and Imperialism
Introduction
Overview
The methodological framework
The search for an alternative
Conclusion: the oppositional stance of the secular intellectual
4 Said and Postcolonial Studies
Introduction
Said and the field of postcolonial studies
Postcolonial theorists: Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak
Orientalism and the literature of empire
Orientalism and the study of imperial travel writing
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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