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Reading Arabia: British Orientalism in the Age of Mass Publication, 1880-1930

Reading Arabia: British Orientalism in the Age of Mass Publication, 1880-1930

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East

General Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0815633238
ISBN13: 9780815633235
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Feb 21 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.43
Language: English
Reading Arabia traces the evolving tradition of British Orientalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining the role of mass print culture in constructing the British public's perception of Arabia. Long brings together close readings and ideological analyses of primary texts by Richard Burton, Charles Doughty, Robert Cunninghame Graham, Marmaduke Pickthall, and T. E. Lawrence, along with pamphlets, journalism and commentary, silent films, stage spectacles, and travel literature. Through these texts, Long examines the fantasy of the Orient and its constitutive function. Building on the pioneering work of Edward Said, Reading Arabia looks beyond foreign policy debates and issues of human rights to show how British Orientalism is rooted in words and phrases of a popular culture that shaped the way the public read and imagined the Arab world.

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