Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse (1872-1932)

A century before the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, a passionate discourse emerged in the Ottoman Empire, rebutting politicized Western representations of the East. Until the 1930s, Ottoman and early Turkish Republican intellectuals, well acquainted with the European political and cultural scene and charged with their own ideological agendas, deconstructed tired clich s about "the Orient." In this book, Zeynep elik recontextualizes Eurocentric postcolonial studies, unearthing an important episode in modern Middle Eastern intellectual history and curating a selection of primary texts illustrating the debates.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Çelik, Zeynep
Published: 05/20/2021
Publisher: Koc University Press
ISBN: 9786057685353
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.95lbs