Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History

The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book <I>Orientalism</I>. However recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition of the phenomenon highlighting the multiple forms of orientalism within the West the manifold presence of the East in the Western world indeed the epistemological fragility of the ideas of Occident and Orient as such.<BR><BR>This volume focuses on the deployment -- here the cultural philosophical political and scholarly uses -- of orientalism in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Its interdisciplinary approach combines distinguished contributions by Indian scholars who approach the topic of orientalism through the prism of German studies as practiced in Asia with representative chapters by senior German Austrian and English-speaking scholars working at the intersection of German and oriental studies.<BR><BR>CONTRIBUTORS: Anil Bhatti Michael Dusche Johannes Feichtinger Johann Heiss James Hodkinson Kerstin Jobst Jon Keune Todd Kontje Margit Köves Sarah Lemmen Shaswati Mazumdar Jyoti Sabarwal Ulrike Stamm John Walker.<BR><BR>JAMES HODKINSON is Associate Professor in German Studies at Warwick University. JOHN WALKER is Senior Lecturer in European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck College University of London. SHASWATI MAZUMDAR is Professor in German at the University of Delhi. JOHANNES FEIGHTINGER is a Researcher at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.