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Introduction: New Models for Indo-German Scholarship Within the Critical Reappraisal of Orientalism

Introduction: New Models for Indo-German Scholarship Within the Critical Reappraisal of Orientalism re-orientaliSm: german inDology StuDieS BeyonD FouCault anD gaDamer roBert Cowan The study of German Orientalism has had a conflicted relationship with the Saidian mode of inquiry, from Edward Said's initial omission of the German role in Orientalism in his pioneering 1978 book to his later rejoinders to his critics, which further entrenched his stance on the issue. Despite this, German Orientalism scholarship has further extended the reach of Said's critical apparatus, capitalizing on those deconstructive elements that have proven most useful in revealing personal biases, racial agendas, and overt and covert power dynamics. Yet, as Suzanne L. Marchand notes in the introduction to her new book, "those who have followed Said's lead and adopted the Foucauldian tactic of analyzing only the surfaces of the texts they study end up simply reiterating what we know, namely that people make representations for their own purposes; too rarely do they ask about the variety of those purposes, or about the rootedness of those representations in weaker and stronger interpretations of original sources" (xxi). Much of the scholarship on German Orientalism in the past fifteen years or so, however, and Marchand is part of this, has attempted to refine that which is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Introduction: New Models for Indo-German Scholarship Within the Critical Reappraisal of Orientalism

Cowan, Robert
The Comparatist , Volume 34 (1) – Jun 24, 2010
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re-orientaliSm: german inDology StuDieS BeyonD FouCault anD gaDamer roBert Cowan The study of German Orientalism has had a conflicted relationship with the Saidian mode of inquiry, from Edward Said's initial omission of the German role in Orientalism in his pioneering 1978 book to his later rejoinders to his critics, which further entrenched his stance on the issue. Despite this, German Orientalism scholarship has further extended the reach of Said's critical apparatus, capitalizing on those deconstructive elements that have proven most useful in revealing personal biases, racial agendas, and overt and covert power dynamics. Yet, as Suzanne L. Marchand notes in the introduction to her new book, "those who have followed Said's lead and adopted the Foucauldian tactic of analyzing only the surfaces of the texts they study end up simply reiterating what we know, namely that people make representations for their own purposes; too rarely do they ask about the variety of those purposes, or about the rootedness of those representations in weaker and stronger interpretations of original sources" (xxi). Much of the scholarship on German Orientalism in the past fifteen years or so, however, and Marchand is part of this, has attempted to refine that which is

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