Book contents
- Orientalism and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Orientalism and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1 Origins
- Part II Development
- Part III Application
- Chapter 14 From Orientalism to Islamophobia
- Chapter 15 Applications of Neo-Orientalism and Islamophobia in Recent Writing
- Chapter 16 Orientalism and Cultural Translation: Middle Eastern American Writing
- Chapter 17 New Orientalism and the American Media: New York Cleopatra and Saudi “Giggly Black Ghosts”
- Chapter 18 On Orientalism’s Future(s)
- Chapter 19 “The Engine of Survival”: A Future For Orientalism
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 19 - “The Engine of Survival”: A Future For Orientalism
from Part III - Application
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
- Orientalism and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Orientalism and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1 Origins
- Part II Development
- Part III Application
- Chapter 14 From Orientalism to Islamophobia
- Chapter 15 Applications of Neo-Orientalism and Islamophobia in Recent Writing
- Chapter 16 Orientalism and Cultural Translation: Middle Eastern American Writing
- Chapter 17 New Orientalism and the American Media: New York Cleopatra and Saudi “Giggly Black Ghosts”
- Chapter 18 On Orientalism’s Future(s)
- Chapter 19 “The Engine of Survival”: A Future For Orientalism
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
A constant in the forty-year life of Orientalism is that it has been judged variously unsatisfactory, flawed, insufficient, unnecessary and unacceptable from a wide range of political, religious, ethnic and academic positions. What, one wonders, is so wrong with it, that people are queuing up to condemn it, and, if it is so wrong, how has it managed not only to survive but to flourish – translated into more than thirty-five languages by the early years of this century? Looking at the phenomenon from a slightly different angle, one could ask: “What is it about Orientalism that so frightens or disturbs so many different groups and individuals?”
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- Orientalism and Literature , pp. 337 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019