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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- WAYS IN TO THE TEXT -- Who Was Edward Said? -- What Does Orientalism Say? -- Why Does Orientalism Matter? -- SECTION 1: INFLUENCES -- Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context -- Module 2: Academic Context -- Module 3: The Problem -- Module 4: The Author's Contribution -- SECTION 2: IDEAS -- Module 5: Main Ideas -- Module 6: Secondary Ideas -- Module 7: Achievement -- Module 8: Place in the Author's Work -- SECTION 3: IMPACT -- Module 9: The First Responses -- Module 10: The Evolving Debate -- Module 11: Impact and Influence Today -- Module 12: Where Next? -- Glossary of Terms -- People Mentioned in the Text -- Works Cited

'Orientalism' by Edward Said is reviewed. Orientalism by Edward Said is reviewed.

The 'War on Terror' gave rise to stark visions of a Christian West battling a mad mullah from the East over nothing less than the fate of civilization. These baldly Orientalist constructions are only the latest incarnation of an older, deeper relationship between Orientalism and war, one that can be traced as far back as the Greek and Persian wars of antiquity. This volume examines the Orientalist constructs that arise from conflict and military intervention in the non-European world

This collection of eleven essays reevaluates Edward Said's definition of 'orientalism' widely misconstrued as being merely postcolonial and contestable. The volume emphasizes the need to move beyond the prejudice and stereotype tied to the context of colonial exploitation. It challenges the assumption that oriental studies only served to segregate cultures and undermine the oriental peoples' capacity for self-formation. It shows how cultures can generate studies of themselves on their own, and the impetus for such work was clearly noticeable at least in Indian cultural scholarship during the colonial period

Introduction : orientalism and war / Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski --. - Shocked by war : the non-politics of orientalism / Arjun Chowdhury --. - American orientalism at war in Korea and the United States : a hegemony of racism, repression, and amnesia / Bruce Cumings --. - Terror, the imperial presidency, and American heroism / Susan Jeffords --. - Can the insurgent speak? / Hugh Gusterson --. - Colonial wars, postcolonial specters : the anxiety of domination / Qu-nh N. Phaam and Himadeep R. Muppidi --. - Orientalism in the machine / Josef Teboho Ansorge --. - Dis/ordering the orient : scopic regimes and modern war / Derek Gregory --. - Nesting orientalisms at war : World War II and the 'memory war' in Eastern Europe / Maria Mølksoo --. - Victimhood as agency : Afghan women's memoirs / Margaret A. Mills --. - Fanon's 'Guerre des ondes': resisting the call of orientalism / John Mowitt --. - The pleasures of imperialism and the pink elephant : torture, sex, orientalism / Patricia Owens --. - Afterword / Patrick Porter

One group of South Asians had become objects of fear and derision and targets of immigration enforcement and extra-legal violence. Another group of South Asians was being heralded for their social, economic, and cultural contributions to the United States. The aftermath of 9/11 had brought into relief a deep set of divisions within the South Asian American community. In some ways, these years called into question the very utility of "South Asian" as an identity marking the common experiences of Americans with roots in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.These were nations that shared colonial histories as different parts of British India and Ceylon, but they were now divided by military, religious, and ethnic conflicts on the subcontinent, and their diasporic communities had significantly different levels of power, income, and influence in the United States