Why are we not still engaging with Orientalism? I feel like it’s woefully underrated.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
His influence is so enormous that we mostly engage with him through other writers. We forget to go back to his original texts (as we do with many key thinkers).
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @eversoslightly
I also think that sometimes we are too preoccupied with trying to poke holes in the argument or come up with counter arguments that we don’t take the time to appreciate what is being said. I find that particularly true about Orientalism.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
I thought his autobiography 'Out of Place' was also good for getting a sense of how his life informed his thinking. As an EM scholar you might like his account of watching Gielgud's Hamlet as a boy in post-war Egypt.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @eversoslightly
Toward the end of the intro of Orientalism he talks about his own positionality vis-a-vis the object of his study. It is a powerful reminder of the forces the shape our scholarship.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
Yes that generation were viscerally engaged with their subject. Empire and the traumas of decolonisation weren't remotely abstract, they had to live it. Stuart Hall's recent autobiography (with Bill Schwarz) is also really good at showing the link between life and scholarship.
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I will have to look for that, another one of my academic heroes.
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