Lecture #9: Orientalisms
Orientalism
Barbary
Saracens
Moors
Delacroix
exoticism
seraglio
ethnography
Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt
Sites
of
Interest:
Orientalists and the Middle East
Reviews of Edward Said's Works
Reviews of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978)
Edward Said's Orientalism: a Brief Definition
ArabNet - The Resource for the Arab World in the Middle East and North Africa
ArabNet -- Algeria, History, French Colonisation
1. What is the Orient?
A. Images of the Orient in Orientalist Painting
(slide show)
2. Early encounters with the Orient
A. Medieval encounters: the Moorish infidels B. Early modern European conceptions of the Orient: 1500-1750
3. Orientalism in the Enlightenment
4. Orientalism and Colonialism in the 19th Century
A. 19th-century European expansion in the Near East
B. Knowledge and Imperial Power: Napoleon in Egypt