Reassessing Orientalism

Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War

Michael Kemper, Artemy M. Kalinovsky

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781138795143
• eBook ISBN: 9781317636694
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Literature

Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, argues that the diffusion of interpretations and techniques in orientalism was not uni-directional, and that the different orientologies – Western, Soviet and oriental orientologies – were interlocked, in such a way that a change in any one of them affected the others; that the different orientologies did not develop in isolation from each other; and that, importantly, those being orientalised were active, not passive, players in shaping how the views of themselves were developed.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War era
• 2 Orientologies compared US and Soviet imaginaries of the modern Middle East
• 3 From tents to citadels Oriental archaeology and textual studies in Soviet Kazakhstan
• 4 ‘Ulama'-Orientalists Madrasa graduates at the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies
• 5 Because of our commercial intercourse and … bringing about a better understanding between the two peoples” A history of Japanese studies in the United States*
• 6 Competing national Orientalisms The cases of Belgrade and Sarajevo
• 7 Propaganda for the East, scholarship for the West Soviet strategies at the 1960 International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow
• 8 Encouraging resistance Paul Henze, the Bennigsen school, and the crisis of détente
• Index