(Neo) Orientalisms: Representing the Middle East
Seminar Organizer: Mrinalini Chakravorty
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Email: mc5je@virginia.edu
Description: This seminar will consider emergent questions about the poetics, politics, and practices of representation within a wide array of texts and contexts related to the Middle East. Assuming with Said that the epistemologies and imaginative geographies of Orientalism continue to be durable and powerful, the seminar will grapple with questions of methodology and critique that usefully challenge the uneven exchanges of power (political, intellectual, sexual, cultural, and ethical) that bolster Orientalist discourse. A broad rubric such as “(Neo) Orientalisms