Orientalism

Orientalism

By
Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said
1978 • 433 pages

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148 books

History

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Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
Interpreting Our Heritage
Orientalism
Shutting out the sun
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

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232 books

Formally Studied

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Billy Budd
Notes From Underground
The Awakening
The Shawl
The Lottery
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas

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78 books

Literary Criticism

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Offensive Films
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations
Orientalism

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73 books

Philosophy

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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
The Culture Industry
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
Manufacturing Consent
SCUM Manifesto
Orientalism

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2 books

Palestinian

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Orientalism
Wild Thorns

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208 books

Nonfiction

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Teija
The Devil's Highway
Just Mercy
A Colony in a Nation
The Last Jew of Treblinka
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
My Own Words
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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160 books

History

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Teija
The Devil in the White City
Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics
Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany
Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism
Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia
Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad
Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories

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71 books

European History

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Teija
A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Death in Berlin
Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany
Rites of Spring
Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories
Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany
Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics

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11 books

Intellectual History

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Teija
Evolution: The History of an Idea
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880–1918
Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World
Orientalism
Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

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91 books

Owned

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Les Enfants Terribles
La Mer de la fertilité
American Psycho
1984
Stroheim: A pictorial record of his nine films
Art Nouveau
Pasolini On Pasolini: Interviews with Oswald Stack

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85 books

Non Fiction

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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
The Second World War
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa
The Second World War
A bright shining lie
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

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22 books

Non Fiction

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Orientalism
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
When Breath Becomes Air
Manufacturing Consent
Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity

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85 books

Diaspora

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The Heart's Traffic
Zaatar Diva
The People of Paper
A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New
Paper Bridges: Selected Poems
A History Of God
The Colors of Jews

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47 books

Class

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Love Cake
Orientalism
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Doris: An Anthology, 1991-2001
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

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18 books

Theory

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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality
Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Orientalism
Desiring Arabs

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56 books

Required

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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality
Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Orientalism
Desiring Arabs

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7 books

Palestine

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Zaatar Diva
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
Orientalism
Arabesques

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12 books

Islam

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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Orientalism
Desiring Arabs
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Zaatar Diva
Persepolis, Vol. 1

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13 books

Summer Reading 2011

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Drag King Dreams
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Orientalism
Write About an Empty Birdcage
Trauma Stewardship
Doris 15: Antidepression Guide
High Noon and the Body

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50 books

Politics

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As We Go Marching
The Road to Serfdom
Atlas Shrugged
The Pirate's Dilemma
Capitalism and Freedom
1984

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62 books

Non Fiction

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Pirate's Dilemma
Capitalism and Freedom
Imperial Hubris
Marching toward hell
"A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship"

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28 books

Culture

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The Pirate's Dilemma
The Great Gatsby
A Clockwork Orange
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Stoned, Naked, and Looking in My Neighbor's Window: The Best Confessions from GroupHug.us
Lolita

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110 books

Classic Challenge

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The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Odyssey
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Great Gatsby
The Canterbury Tales

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46 books

Owned

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Prisoner's Dilemma/John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb
The Dispossessed
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Book of Why
A Little History of Philosophy
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
A Tramp Abroad

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39 books

Owned

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Kinsey
The Dragonet Prophecy
The Brightest Night
Escaping Peril
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Cress
First Test
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