ISBN:
9781443823449
,
1443823449
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (276 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hosford, Desmond French Orientalism : Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other
DDC:
303.482440509034
Keywords:
Orientalism History
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19th century
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France
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East and West
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Orientalism History 19th century
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France Relations
;
Orient
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Orient Relations
;
France
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Literature: history & criticism
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European history
;
International relations
;
Orientalism
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization
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East and West
;
History
;
France Relations
;
Orient
;
Orient Relations
;
France
;
France Relations
;
Orient Relations
;
Asia ; Orient
;
France
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In 1798, Napoléon I launched his Egyptian Campaign and opened what has become recognized as the canonic period of French Orientalism, which extends from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. As defined by Edward W. Said (Orientalism, 1978), Orientalism is intrinsically Eurocentric and places the Orient in opposition to the European West as the quintessentially foreign Other. In this sense, the Occident supposedly defines itself by gazing at the East as its inverse image and
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index. - Print version record
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