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Post-Orientalism - Knowledge & Power in a Time of Terror (Paperback)
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Post-Orientalism - Knowledge & Power in a Time of Terror (Paperback)
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Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's
reflections over many years on the question of authority and power.
Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's work
picks up where Edward Said's Orientalism left off. Said traced the
origin of the power of representation and the normative agency that
it entails to the colonial hubris that carried a militant band of
mercenary merchants, military officers, Christian missionaries, and
European Orientalists around the globe. This hubris enabled them to
write and represent the people they sought to rule. Dabashi's book
is not as much a critique of colonial representation as it is of
the manners and modes of fighting back and resisting it. He does
not question the significance of Orientalism and its principal
concern with the colonial acts of representation, but he provides a
different angle that argues for the primacy of the question of
postcolonial agency. Dabashi uses the United States as an example
of a country that initiated militant acts of representation in Iraq
and Afghanistan. He attempts to unearth and examine the United
States' deeply rooted claim to normative and moral agency,
particularly in light of the world's post-9/11 political reality.
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