Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
For two decades Edward Said's Orientalism has occupied a significant place in how we think through the cultural relations between what we now call ‘North’ and ‘South’. Conceived in the 1970s, Said’s model mounted a challenge to readers in the west, suggesting they should unlearn what they know of the east. Despite its influence, one weakness of this approach was the underlying suggestion that orientalism was a one-way street, constituting a fixed set of perceptions or timeless discourses. In and without the Orientalist imagination, what is to be done with those in ‘the Occident’ who find themselves treated as outsiders? What of aspirant allies of the east?
Recommended Citation
Barnfield, Graham "On Bill V. Mullen's Afro-Orientalism." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 5, no. 2, 2005, pp. 1–6.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol5/iss2/11
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