Reassessing Orientalism by Michael Kemper, Artemy M. Kalinovsky - 9781138795143

Taylor & Francis

Reassessing OrientalismInterlocking Orientologies during the Cold War\nAuthor(s): Michael Kemper, Artemy M. Kalinovsky\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138795143, 978-1138795143\nSynopsis\nOrientalism 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 t.