Occidentalism : Images of the West
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0198279795
ISBN-13
9780198279792
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 13th, 1995
Print length
282 Pages
Weight
396 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.00 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesAnthropology
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This is an investigation of Western cultural identity. It shows how people's images of themselves and others reflect the power that different groups in a society have to shape these images. The contributors describe these images in Western academic writing, popular Western culture, and societies outside the West, in this counterpart to Edward Said's Orientalism.
Occidentalism is an investigation of images of Western cultural identity. Edward Said''s Orientalism revolutionized Western understanding of non-Western cultures by showing how Western projected images shaped the Occidental view of the Orient, but those who follow Said have not until now reflected that understanding back onto Western societies. Occidentalism shows how images of the West shape people''s conceptions of themselves and others, and how these images are in turn shaped by members of Western and non-Western societies alike. The contributors describe and explicate these images in a variety of areas, from Western academic writing to popular Western culture, from societies within and outside the West, to show how power and conflict shape such conceptions.
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