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Hermeneutics versus History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

David Kopf
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Much of the personal investment in this study derives from my awareness of being an “Oriental” as a child growing up in two British colonies. All of my education, in these colonies (Palestine and Egypt) and in the United States, has been Western, and yet that deep early awareness has persisted. In many ways my study of Orientalism has been an attempt to inventory the traces upon me, the Oriental subject, of the culture whose domination has been so powerful a factor in the life of all Orientals.

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Review Symposium: Edward Said's Orientalism
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , May 1980, pp. 495 - 506
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980

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