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We Deportees: Race, Religion, and War on Palestine’s No-Man’s-Land
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 87–110.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., autoethnographies—is understood as a technology of mediation that operates beyond the bounds of the prevailing Islamophobic and orientalist frames while also addressing Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. The case of the deportees thus illuminates the articulation of race, religion, and war as it rubs...
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Orientalism and the Open Horizon of Secular Criticism
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 11–20.
Published: 01 June 2006
... and
epistemological force animates and surely exceeds the explicit boundar- term), some
ies of the social dimensions that are easily recognizable in the specific
histories and geographies of orientalist practices. One need only consider delusional abuse
how complex and ubiquitous — indeed...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 1–9.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... But orientalist schol-
ars and die-hard defenders of any and all Israeli policies showed little
interest in or knowledge of anticolonial writings and post-structuralist
theories — intellectual currents at the heart of Said’s...
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Guru English
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Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 19–44.
Published: 01 March 2001
... in search of their “subjective truths.”9
I see the evolution of guru English occurring in three distinct phases:
(a) 1757–1857, the period of Company to Empire, itself consisting of two
parts: (i) 1757–1805, when the work of the first-wave Orientalists...
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Area Studies and Multicultural Imperialism: THE PROJECT OF DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 41–62.
Published: 01 March 2007
... Said located this colonial mindset to the Orien-
talization of the other endemic to the field. Middle East experts who advise
policy makers, Said wrote,
are imbued with Orientalism almost to a person. . . . The Orientalist now tries
to see the Orient as an imitation West which...
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Where Is West Asia in Asian America?: “Asia” and The Politics of Space in Asian America
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2006
....
In redefining their common enemy as Muslims around the world, Hin- enemy as Muslims
dus in Queens and Jews in Long Island resurrected an orientalist discourse
around the
that has acquired a pervasive ferocity in the post-9/11...
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Queer Times, Queer Assemblages
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 121–139.
Published: 01 December 2005
... take issue with Al-Fatiha’s statements, as they along with many other
statements relied on an orientalist notion of “Muslim sexuality” that fore-
grounded sexual repression and upheld versions of normative masculin-
ity...
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Actional Orientalism: Queer Liberalism and Homonationalist Regimes of Grievability in Dragon Age: Inquisition
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 53–71.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of Orientalized life through massification, as a moral justification for military-imperial violence, is far from a new phenomenon. In his original formulation of Orientalism, Said has observed that “Orientalists are neither interested in nor capable of discussing individuals,” preferring the totalizing mass...
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Contributors
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Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): np.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Chaudhuri is a fellow at the center for studies in the social sci-
ences in Calcutta; she completed her doctorate at Oxford University. Her
book, Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal: Emergent Nationalism and the
Orientalist Project, was published in 2002 (Seagull). Her current research
focus...
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Not Yet Beyond the Veil: Muslim Women in American Popular Literature
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 105–131.
Published: 01 June 2009
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willed. Far from exotic, in this iteration they are pleasingly familiar, a kind
of shadowy sister-self to the American female, if not feminist, reader. Com-
pared with the instances of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
these neo-Orientalist...
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Area Studies, Gender Studies, and the Cartographies of Knowledge
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 67–78.
Published: 01 September 2002
... discursive links between the Americas and the Orient
prior to the formation of contemporary geopolitics.4 Perhaps the first
modern Orientalist was none other than Columbus.
After his arrival on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, he wrote...
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Race, Sex, and Nerds: FROM BLACK GEEKS TO ASIAN AMERICAN HIPSTERS
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 49–64.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., rooted in the soil of
sensuality. Orientalist racism operates by making a group of people too
Americans have abstract and thus “arabesque”—not really a natural human but one who is
devoid of emotion, caring only for money or an inscrutable spiritual tran...
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The Seed Keepers
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of people, and wasting away as a result of Ottoman mismanagement. The image of neglect and picturesque ruin was a standard trope of nineteenth-century Orientalist art, photography, and writing. The ruined landscape also contained within it the subtle implication that the people who lived there were “lazy...
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Edward Said: “The Last Jewish Intellectual”: ON IDENTITY, ALTERITY, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 47–65.
Published: 01 June 2006
... is a form of colonialism, they seem to differ on its exact nature.
orientalist and For Massad, the Jewish tragedy is framed in a particular time and place:
it belongs to the history of Jews in Europe, and, as such, it has no direct
imperialistic implications...
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Navigating the “Middle East” in Washington: Diasporic Experts and the Power of Multiplicitous Diplomacy
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 105–123.
Published: 01 September 2022
... colonial, Orientalist projects—that continue to isolate the Middle East from global histories, circulations, and political-economic and security processes. 11 As Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera write in the introduction to Global Middle East: Into to the Twenty-First Century , “Today a powerful neo...
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Bollywood Spectacles: QUEER DIASPORIC CRITIQUE IN THE AFTERMATH OF 9/11
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 157–169.
Published: 01 December 2005
...,” as well as Sekhon’s other images of naked Asian
bodies on London streets, places the viewer in the uncomfortable position
of voyeur, in that it conjures forth a history of colonial (and specifically
orientalist) practices of photography that fix “native” women...
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Rupture and Return: ZIONIST DISCOURSE AND THE STUDY OF ARAB JEWS
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 49–74.
Published: 01 June 2003
...,
both the romanticization and the modernization narratives share the dis-
cursive production of the Mizrahi family as a site of deviance from an
implicit cultural normativity. Therefore, the Orientalist emphasis on the
Mizrahi extended...
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Postspatial, Postcolonial: Accessing Palestine in the Digital
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 55–82.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of al-Haram al-Sharif and of disembodied, objective, transferrable vision. The serene scene offered in the wide, beautiful shots acts as a present, attainable utopia within the grasp of the viewer. The videos borrow the form of Orientalist panoramic detail that implies rational, universal vision in its...
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Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 19–47.
Published: 01 June 2020
... that differentiates within the category “Muslim” the Orientalist logics of monstrosity from anti-Black logics of enslavement. The product of the prisoner’s labor — the information “birthed” in interrogation — is not arbitrary. In the case of the COBALT interrogations, the goal was to reproduce a racial enemy...
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The Filipina's Breast: SAVAGERY, DOCILITY, AND THE EROTICS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 89–110.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., sexual and racial discourses continue to haunt
the term Filipina in the early twenty-first century. American orientalist
fantasies of the Filipina savage continue in new media such as the Inter-
net. Media scholars and Filipina feminists...
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