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Orientalism

By: Edward Said
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture." He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for Europe and the US' colonial and imperial ambitions. Just as fiercely, he denounced the practice of Arab elites who internalized the US and British orientalists' ideas of Arabic culture. Peter Ganim's narration gives the work an elegant and knowledgable voice.

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Will argued with diamond-solid citations and centuries of examples. The quintessential place to start in decolonising your understanding of history.

THE work on Orientalism

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Very much worth reading to give important context to the events of today The history has been told through biased Western lens.

Timeless classic

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The careful, steady narration style really made this book more easily digestible for me. This was one of the items on a reading list I made for myself with the goal of pursuing a more well-rounded education as an adult, since I didn’t get a chance to participate in normal schooling as a kid. I found the book itself to be very enlightening, especially when it comes to how American Christians (especially American Messianic Christians) interpret and use disconnected bits and bobs of Judaism and sometimes Islam and Buddhism in their own practices, often disembodying them entirely from their original use and meaning. I understood basically why, but I never grasped how we got here and why it became so acceptable. Now I have a broader perspective on the widely validated and scholarly traditions that have essentially groomed the modern fundamentalist to be willing to dissect and pick through anything “divine” until whatever they’ve acquired from this ritual has become unrecognizable as anything other than what they initially intended to find anyway. It helped me examine attitudes that I have considered normal, or that I’ve lamenting accepted to be just the way things are, and to understand what may have birthed some of these tendencies. The scope of the book is more narrow and specific than I expected just based on the broadness of the title, and the part that I’ve just focused on is only a tiny fraction of that. My mention of this is not a criticism but more of a compliment. I think it would be impossible to cover “everything” thing subject has to offer, and a book that claimed to do so would either leave half of everything out or just never get finished. I think the focused, specific subject matter allowed for a much better reading experience. Overall, I truly enjoyed this book and found it thought provoking in many ways as well as personally relatable both as the Semite and the Westerner reflected in the pages. I am by no means an especially educated or academically gifted person, so I’m sure I missed a lot and I’m aware that I could come across as being the cherry picker I’m referencing in my own review. This is not intentional, I promise. But I did find it edifying in whatever way I was able to absorb as somebody with no background in philosophy, history, sociology, or really anything. It truly felt like Said was able to meet me where I’m at, so to speak. At the end of the day, I’m happy I finally got a chance to read this and I hope to come back to it again in a few years to see if I can deepen my understanding with a second pass.

Interesting book and narrated beautifully

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Thank you! THANK YOU!!
I want to thank you, Audible, for give scholars the opportunity to have their books in audio.
Edward Said deserves it.
I am really looking forward for the next publications. I hope there's more Edward Said coming!!
Please, the Audio Book field have reached an academic level that you, Audible, has the responsibility to fill this gap. More Academic Books! Please! and "Bravo" for Edward Said!

Wonderful! Epic! We need more like this around!

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Lacking a fluency in French will make this book rather frustrating at times, as the reader is without subtitles or translation.

For the non French listeners

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