Debating Orientalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Orientalism: Legacies of a Performance

   • Ziad Elmarsafy, Anna Bernard

   Pages 1-17

3. Orientalism’s Contribution to World History and Middle Eastern History 35 Years Later

   • Peter Gran

   Pages 18-37

4. Flaubert’s Camel: Said’s Animus

   • Robert Irwin

   Pages 38-54

5. Said before Said

   • Donna Landry

   Pages 55-72

6. Orienting America: Sanskrit and Modern Scholarship in the United States, 1836–94

   • Mishka Sinha

   Pages 73-93

7. Re-Arabizing the De-Arabized: The Mista ʿaravim Unit of the Palmach

   • Yonatan Mendel

   Pages 94-116

8. Cannibalizing Iraq: Topos of a New Orientalism

   • Moneera Al-Ghadeer

   Pages 117-133

9. Confessions of a Dangerous (Arab) Mind

   • Andrea Teti

   Pages 134-154

10. The ‘War on Terror’ and the Backlash against Orientalism

    • Robert Spencer

    Pages 155-174

11. ‘The Defeat of Narrative by Vision’: Said and the Image

    • Nicholas Tromans

    Pages 175-191

12. How Much Is Enough Said? Some Gendered Responses to Orientalism

    • Joanna de Groot

    Pages 192-215

13. Said’s Impact: Lessons for Literary Critics

    • Nicholas Harrison

    Pages 216-241

14. Back Matter

    Pages 242-268

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Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy.

• America
• Edward Said
• history
• history of literature
• Iraq
• Michel Foucault
• Middle East
• Narrative
• Orient
• performance
• philosophy
• politics
• USA
• world history

"Debating Orientalism offers a useful balance between the more historiographical and the more theoretical interventions, and gives an excellent sense of the multiple disciplinary frameworks Said's book invokes and incites. The chapters talk back to each other in intriguing ways, indeed at points argue categorically against each other, giving a sense of immediacy and debate." - Dr. Alex Padamsee, University of Kent, UK

• Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK

  Ziad Elmarsafy, David Attwell

• Department of English and Comparative Literature, King’s College London, UK

  Anna Bernard

Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Qatar University, USA Peter Gran, Temple University, USA Joanna de Groot, University of York, UK Nicholas Harrison, King's College London, UK Robert Irwin, London University, UK Donna Landry, University of Kent, UK Yonatan Mendel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Rajeshwari Mishka Sinha, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge, UK Robert Spencer, University of Manchester, UK Andrea Teti, University of Aberdeen, UK Nicholas Tromans, Kingston University, UK