OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN VOICES: WRITING AGAINST ORIENTALISMWorld Literature II

Fall 2012

Dr. R. Ramos

REVIEW: EDWARD SAID’S “ORIENTALISM”

“Orientalism [is] the [West’s] corporate institution for dealing with the Orient […] by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient” (88).

“Orientalism is more particularly valuable as a sign of European-Atlantic power over the Orient than it is a veridic [true] discourse about the Orient” (90).

MAP OF THE MIDDLE EAST

PAKISTAN/INDIA: SALMAN RUSHDIE (B.1947) – POST-MODERNSHORT STORY: “CHEKHOV AND ZULU”

PALESTINE: MAHMOUD DARWISH (1941-2008) – POST-MODERNPOEM: “SIRHAN DRINKS HIS COFFEE IN THE CAFETERIA”

JORDAN/IRAQ: ABDELRAHMAN MUNIF (1933-2004) -- REALISTNOVEL EXCERPT FROM CITIES OF SALT

EGYPT: NAQUIB MAHFOUZ (1911-2006)SHORT STORY: “ZAABALAWI”

LIBYA: IBRAHIM AL-KONI (B. 1948) – POST-MODERNSHORT STORY: “THE GOLDEN BIRD OF MISFORTUNE”

SYRIA/LEBANON: HANAN AL-SHAYKH (B.1945) -- REALISTSHORT STORY: “A SEASON OF MADNESS”

MOROCCO: FATIMA MERNISSI (B. 1940) – REALISTMEMOIR EXCERPT: “THE HAREM WITHIN”