Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient - A Critical Discourse (1872-1932)

Aron Aji, Gregory Key, Zeynep Çelik

ISBN 10: 6057685350 / ISBN 13: 9786057685353

Published by Koc University Press, TR, 2021

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A century before the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, a passionate discourse emerged in the Ottoman Empire, rebutting politicized Western representations of the East. Until the 1930s, Ottoman and early Turkish Republican intellectuals, well acquainted with the European political and cultural scene and charged with their own ideological agendas, deconstructed tired clichés about "the Orient." In this book, Zeynep Çelik recontextualizes Eurocentric postcolonial studies, unearthing an important episode in modern Middle Eastern intellectual history and curating a selection of primary texts illustrating the debates.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient - A Critical Discourse (1872-1932)
• Publisher: Koc University Press, TR
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6057685350
• ISBN 13: 9786057685353
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 402 grams

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Synopsis

A century before the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism, a passionate discourse emerged in the Ottoman Empire, rebutting politicized Western representations of the East. Until the 1930s, Ottoman and early Turkish Republican intellectuals, well acquainted with the European political and cultural scene and charged with their own ideological agendas, deconstructed tired clichés about “the Orient.” In this book, Zeynep Çelik recontextualizes Eurocentric postcolonial studies, unearthing an important episode in modern Middle Eastern intellectual history and curating a selection of primary texts illustrating the debates.

About the Authors

Zeynep Çelik is distinguished professor emerita at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Aron Aji is director of the University of Iowa’s MFA in Literary Translation program.

Gregory Key is a lecturer in modern and Ottoman Turkish at SUNY Binghamton in New York.