Readings on Orientalism

 

N.B.  This is an unedited list, always under construction.  Suggestions for additions are welcome.

 

Ackerman, Gerald.  The Life and Work of Jean Leon Gerome.

 

Alloula, Malek.  Le Harem Colonial (images d’un sous-erotisme)  Geneva and Paris, 1981. 

 

HQ 1791.5 A76 English translation available at Robarts Library.

 

Armstrong, N.  “The Occidental Alice” in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. No. 2, 1990

 

Balachandra, Rajan, Under western eyes : India from Milton to Macaulay (Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999).  PR 129 .I5R35 1999X

 

Benfey, Christopher. “Tea With Okakura,”  The New York Review of Books, May 25, 2000, 43-47. 

 

Benjamin, Robert   Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee.  The Art Gallery of New South Wales.  Distributed by

 

                Thames and Hudson, 1997.

 

Berko, P and V.  Orientalist Painting.  Editions Laconti, 1982.

 

Bhabha, H.  “The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse” in Screen, 24, no. 6, 1983.

 

Buonaventura, Wendy.  Serpent of the Nile.  Interlink Books, 1989.

 

Burton, Sir Richard, on: Dane Kennedy, 'Captain Burton's Oriental Muck Heap': The book of the thousand

            nights and the uses of Orientalism. Journal of British Studies, July 2000 v39 i3 p317(2).

                                                                             

Crinson, Mark.  Empire Building,: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture.  London, Routledge, 1996. 

 

                NA 067.45.V53C75.

 

Croutier, Alev Lytle.  Harem – The World Behind the Veil.  Abbeville Press Publishers, 1989.

 

Edwards, Holly.  Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870 – 1930.  Princeton, NJ:

 

                Princeton University Press, 2000.  CB 18.S25K46 2000 ROBA.

 

Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox and Zantop, Suzanne.  The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism

 

                and its Legacy.  Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1998.  NX 550.A1I53.

 

Harlow, Barbara and Carter, Mia.  Imperialism and Orientalism: A Documentary Sourcebook.  Malden,

 

                MA, Blackwell, 1999.  DS33.7. I45.

 

Harootunian, Harry.  History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice and the Question of Everyday Life.

 

Hauptman, William.  Charles Gleyre, 1806 – 1874.

 

Hay, Stephen N.  Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India. 

 

                Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1970.

 

Hourani, Albet.  “The Road to Morroco”, The New York Review of Books, 8, March 1979.

 

                DS 435.8. M37 2000X ROBA.

 

Kennedy, Valerie.  Edward Said: A Critical Introduction.  Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, Malden, MA,

 

                Blackwell, 2000.  CB 18.S25K46 2000 VUPT, TRIN, ROBA.

 

King, Richard.  Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and ‘The Mystic East’, 1999.

Kramer, Martin.  Ivory Towers on Sand:  The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America.  2001.

 

Kumar, Raj.  Annie Besant’s Rise to Power in Indian Politics, 1914-1917.

 

 

Lewis, Bernard.  “The Question of Orientalism,”  in Islam and the West.  Oxford University Press,  1993,

 

                ch. 6.

 

Lewis, Reina.  “On Veiling, Vision, and Voyage: Cross Cultural Dressing and Narratives of Identity,”

 

                Interventions 1, 500-520.  ISSN 1369-801X.

 

Libbey, J.  Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post-war Popular Music.  Sydney, NSW, 1999.

 

Macfie, A.L.  Orientalism: A Reader.  Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2000.  DS 61.85.075.

 

McClintock, Annie.  Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest.  New York, 1995.

 

Melman, Billie.  Women’s Orients.  London, Macmillan, 1992.

 

Murti, Kamakshi P. India.  The Seductive and Seduced “Other” of German Orientalism.  Contributions in

 

                Comparative Orientalism, no. 39.  Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2000.  DS 435.8M37.   

 

Nochlin, Linda, The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-century Art and Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1989).  Chapter 3, “The Imaginary Orient.”  N72 .S6 N63 1989 

 

Obeidat, Marwan M., American Literature and Orientalism in America, 1870-1930.  Princeton, NJ:

 

                Princeton University Press, 2000 NX 503.7 E355.

 

Okakura, Kakuzo.  Ideals of the East.

 

Peltre, Christine.  Orientalism in Art.  Abbeville Press Publishers, 1997.

 

Paxton, Nancy L. Writing Under The Raj: Gender, Race and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947. New Brunswick, NJ / London, Rutgers University Press, 1999.

 

Rouvinez, André, ed., Lehnert & Landrock.  Heidelberg: Umschau Braus, 1998.  [German; photos by a firm that were a major producer of images of the Orient active until World War II; producers of post cards; includes photos with gay interest.]  TR 73 L45 1998X

 

Rubin, Andrew and Moustafa Bayoumi.  The Edward Said Reader.  Vintage, 2000.

 

Said, Edward.  Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the

 

                World.  New York, Pantheon Books, 1981.  BP 52 S24.

 

Said, Edward.  Culture and Orientalism.  New York, Vintage Books, 1994, originally, New York, Alfred

 

A.      Knopf, 1993.

 

Said, Edward.  Edward Said on Orientalism.  [videorecording].  Northampton, MA: The Media Education

 

                Foundation, 1998.

 

Said, Edward.  Orientalism.  New York: Vintage Books, 1979. 

 

 

Said, Edward.  Peace & Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process.  Random

 

                House Canada, 1996.

 

Said, Edward.  (on) Revising Culture, Reinventing Peace: The Influence of Edward W. Said, Interlink

 

                Publishing, 2000.

Sardar, Ziauddin.  Orientalism.  Concepts in the Social Sciences.  Buckingham, Philadelphia, PA.  Open

 

                University Press, 1999.

 

Scherer, Frank F.  “Sanfancon: Orientalism, Self-Orientalization and Chinese Religion in Cuba,” in Patrick

 

                Taylor (ed.)  Natin Dance: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Carribean. 

 

                Bloomington, Indiana University Press.

 

Schueller, Malini Johar.  U.S Orientalisms: Race, Nation and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890. Ann Arbor:

 

                University of Michigan Press, 1998.  PS157.S38.

 

Schwab, Raymond.  The Oriental Renaissance.

 

Shaban, Fuad.  Islam and Arabs in Early American Thought: the roots of orientalism in America.  Durham,

 

                NC, Acorn Press, 1991.  DS 63.2.U5S33.

 

Sweetman, John.  The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and

 

                Architecture.  Cambridge University Press, 1988.

 

 

Thompson, James. The East, imagined, experienced, remembered: orientalist nineteenth century painting. 

 

Thornton, Lynn.  The Orientalists, Painter-Travellers, 1828-1908.  ACR Edition.

 

Turner, Bryan S. Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism (London: Routledge, 1994) and other works by Turner.

 

Weeks, Emily M.  “About Face:  Sir David Wilkie’s Portrait of Mehmet Ali, Pasha of Egypt,” in J.F

 

                Codwell and D.S Macleod , Orientalism Transposed: the Impact of the colonies on British

 

                Culture.  Aldershot, Ashgate, 1998. 

 

Wood, Christopher.  Victorian Painting.

 

Young, R.  Colonial Desire:  Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race.  London, 1995.

 

Zantop, S.  Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Pre-Colonial Germany: 1770-1870. 

 

                Durham and London, 1997.