Zeynep Celik, Aron Aji, Gregory Key

Broschiertes Buch

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

Beschreibung

280 s, monokrom fotograflar, Ingilizce. This remarkable work of scholarship offers a rarely-examined view of Orientalism that of Ottoman and Turkish observers from over a century ago until the 1930s whose critique of the Western gaze anticipated that of Said and other modern authors. Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient constitutes a valuable addition to the slim library of responses to Orientalism from the Orient itself. Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies Department of History, Columbia University Europe Knows Nothing about The Orient is essential reading, compiled by Celik with magisterial scope and erudition, and preceded by an introduction that will be a guide to scholars for generations to come. Celiks volume reveals a worldly, intellectual, cosmopolitan late Ottoman world, one engaged both in projects of modernity, and in sharp critical assessment of the assumptions of the European scholars regarding the Orient. It thus has the effect of both contesting Orientalist theorists of the 19th century, as well as disrupting those of the 21st century, who tend to locate the enterprise of theoretical salvation of the Orient in the realm of Euro-American intellectual thought. Jerrilynn Dodds Harlequin Adair Dammann Professor of Islamic Studies Sarah Lawrence College Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient brings together eye-opening critical texts on Orientalism by angry Ottoman and Turkish intellectuals. The collection is astutely introduced by Zeynep Celik, whose work is essential to understand the cultural modernization of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. Orhan Pamuk Since Edward Saids germinal work defined Orientalism as a key technique of imperialism, few studies have considered local expressions of resistance to it. Framed around five themes, along with a definitive introduction, Zeynep Celiks masterful volume curates stories, articles, and commentaries from Turkish language-texts that lend voice to imperial and nationalist dreams. Beyond providing primary sources from the Ottoman East that add nuance to understandings of Orientalism as merely imposed upon unsuspecting and compliant subjects, the texts Celik explores offer fascinating reading as the selections display the richness and vigor of intellectual debates about Western cultural hegemony in late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. Selim Kuru Associate Professor Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Chair University of Washington

Autor

Zeynep Çelik is distinguished professor emerita at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is the author of many books, most recently About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire. Gregory Key is a lecturer in modern and Ottoman Turkish at SUNY Binghamton in New York. Aron Aji is director of the University of Iowa's MFA in Literary Translation program. His most recent translation, of Bilge Karasu's Long Day's Evening, received an NEA Translation Fellowship and was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Koc University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9786057685353
• ISBN-10: 6057685350
• Artikelnr.: 60864205