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Drawing on the extensive discussion of Said's work in more than 600 bibliographic entries, Daniel Martin Varisco has written an ambitious intellectual history of the debates that Said's work has sparked in several disciplines, highlighting in particular its reception among Arab and European scholars. While pointing out Said's tendency to essentialize and privilege certain texts at the expense of those that do not comfortably fit his theoretical framework, Varisco analyzes the extensive commentary the book has engendered in Oriental studies, literary and cultural studies, feminist scholarship, history, political science, and anthropology. He employs "critical satire" to parody the exaggerated and pedantic aspects of post-colonial discourse, including Said's profound underappreciation of the role of irony and reform in many of the texts he cites. The end result is a companion volume to Orientalism and the vast research it inspired. Rather than contribute to dueling essentialisms, Varisco provides a path to move beyond thebinary of East vs. West and the polemics of blame. Reading Orientalism is the most comprehensive survey of Said's writing and thinking to date. It will be of strong interest to scholars of Middle East studies, anthropology, history, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, and literary studies.
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Daniel Martin Varisco is professor of anthropology at Hofstra University
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
To the Reader xi
Introduction 3
Orienting Orientalism 29
"One That Cannot Now Be Rewritten" 31
Defin[ess]ing Orientalism 40
Verbalizing an Orient 63
The Growth (Benign, Cancerous, or Otherwise) of Orientalism 79
The Said and the Unsaid in Said's Magnum Opus Orientale 93
Dissing Orientalism: All That Said Has Done 95
Drawing the Fault Lines 141
Self-Critique More Than Mere Image 178
A Novel Argument out of Blurred Genres 201
The Seductive Charms of and Against Orientalism 235
Presenting and Representing Orientalism 237
The Essential[ism] Problem 251
What Is Said (but True?) About Said 267
Beyond the Binary 290
Notes 307
Bibliography 423
Index 489