The Islamic Orient studies the travel accounts of four British
travelers during the nineteenth century. Through a critical
analysis of these works, the author examines and questions Edward
Said's concept of "Orientalism" and "Orientalist" discourse: his
argument that the orientalist view had such a strong influence on
westerners that they invariably perceived the orient through the
lens of orientalism. On the contrary, the author argues, no single
factor had an overwhelming influence on them. She shows that
westerners often struggled with their own conceptions of the
orient, and being away for long periods from their homelands, were
in fact able to stand between cultures and view them both as
insiders and outsiders. The literary devices used to examine these
writings are structure, characterization, satire, landscape
description, and word choice, as also the social and political
milieu of the writers. The major influences in the author's
analysis are Said, Foucault, Abdel-Malek and Marie Louise Pratt.
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