Literary Representation and Social Legitimation
J. L. Burckhardt's Approach to “The Orient”
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8965997 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Kenneth Sandbank (New York University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1981 |
| Volumen | 13 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 497-511 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1981-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743800055872 |
| OpenAlex | W2107461465 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 6 |
As a field of study, the Middle East, like its predecessor the “Orient”, continues to exist more concretely within a vast realm of Western texts, both artistic and ethnographic, than it does on the ground. This ingrained disparity between representation and social reality has motivated some scholars to examine this literature as the manifestation of physical or ideological domination. In Edward Said's Orientalism the interpretation of this literature becomes a search for determining social and political forces, the evidence of which, like the nineteenth-century anthropological notion of “survivals”, resides in each text as an implicit network of unconscious images and metaphors. Similarly, Abdelkebir Khatibi, investigating the historical and ethnographic texts of Jacques Berque, views this literature as determined by the requirements of an exigent and compelling, but inherently flawed, Western metaphysic; an “onto-tháologie” which, in confronting questions of essence and existence, must formulate an “other” to realize its “self”
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Legitimation · Linguistics · Literature · Orient · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Realm · Representation (politics · Sociology · Unconscious mind · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
|---|---|
| Altamente citado | No |