Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since ea…
Reorienting orientalism
Presents a collection of ten essays, which re-evaluates Eward Said's definition of orientalism. This book emphasizes the need to move beyond the prejudice and stereotype tied to the context of colonial exploitation, and offers a plea for the re-reading of Said and so reorienting…
This collection of eleven essays reevaluates Edward Said's definition of 'orientalism' widely misconstrued as being merely postcolonial and contestable. The volume emphasizes the need to move beyond the prejudice and stereotype tied to the context of colonial exploitation. It ch…
Revised version of papers presented at the International Conference: Rereading Orientalism, held at Kolkata in August 2004.
The groundbreaking concept of "Orientalism" refers to a discursive power structure devised "for dominating, restructuring and having authority over the Orient". Orientalism was Europe' s strategy of acknowledging the East as its alluring and exotic, yet dangerous and mysterious …
Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West con…
