东方学

简介

Edward Said, a Palestinian-American professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, published Orientalism in 1978. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of discourse and Gramsci’s of hegemony, he reads scholarship, travel writing, novels and colonial administration – from Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 to twentieth-century American policy – as one system that constructed “the Orient” as backward, irrational and unchanging, the opposite against which “the West” defined itself. The book is counted among the founding texts of postcolonial studies. Among its critics was the historian Bernard Lewis, who accused Said of ignoring German scholarship and caricaturing a varied field; the two clashed publicly in The New York Review of Books in 1982.

联系

承接了

• 狱中札记1935 · 安东尼奥·葛兰西
• 规训与惩罚1975 · 米歇尔·福柯

被承接于

• 去殖民化的方法论：研究与原住民1999 · 琳达·图希瓦伊·史密斯

被批评于

• 东方学与反向的东方学1981 · 萨迪克·贾拉勒·阿兹姆