Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies During The Cold War (Routledge Studies In The History Of Russia And Eastern Europe)

Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, argues that the diffusion of interpretations and techniques in orientalism was not uni-directional, and that the different orientologies - Western, Soviet and oriental orientologies - were interlocked, in such a way that a change in any one of them affected the others; that the different orientologies did not develop in isolation from each other; and that, importantly, those being orientalised were active, not passive, players in shaping how the views of themselves were developed.

• | Author: Michael Kemper, Artemy M. Kalinovsky
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Feb 25, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138795143
• | ISBN-13: 9781138795143