How Long to Read Post-Orientalism

How Long Does it Take to Read Post-Orientalism?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Post-Orientalism by Hamid Dabashi

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and power. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's work picks up where Edward Said's Orientalism left off. Said traced the origin of the power of representation and the normative agency that it entails to the colonial hubris that carried a militant band of mercenary merchants, military officers, Christian missionaries, and European Orientalists around the globe. This hubris enabled them to write and represent the people they sought to rule. Dabashi's book is not as much a critique of colonial representation as it is of the manners and modes of fighting back and resisting it. He does not question the significance of Orientalism and its principal concern with the colonial acts of representation, but he provides a different angle that argues for the primacy of the question of postcolonial agency. Dabashi uses the United States as an example of a country that initiated militant acts of representation in Iraq and Afghanistan. He attempts to unearth and examine the United States' deeply rooted claim to normative and moral agency, particularly in light of the world's post-9/11 political reality.

How long is Post-Orientalism?

Post-Orientalism by Hamid Dabashi is 310 pages long, and a total of 77,500 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Post-Orientalism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 3 minutes to read Post-Orientalism aloud.

What Reading Level is Post-Orientalism?

Post-Orientalism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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