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The chapter about how travellers perceived Orient seemed one of the most interesting ones to me in a whole book. Even sex with Oriental people had its own image . The author also draws the distinction between British and French Orientalism .

No wonder I easily found this book in France . Sacy and Renan - both scholars who contributed to development of Orientalism were from France. Interesting how Renan tried to prove that Semitic languages are not as complicated as Indo-European and how supremacy of culture can be shown even through philology.

Orientalism is a projection of Western mind about Orient.
I am finished with 1 chapter of this work .
I read about Orientalistic projects and crisis in Orientalism .
How texts written about Orient are forming our reality.
Also, that’s interesting how people tried to find someone similar to Jesus Christ in Islam and that Napoleon interpreted Quran in his favour to local imams so he can gain trust to colonise.

The more I read this book the more I like it. I really enjoyed the chapter about imaginative geography and Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” mentioned . I never noticed there were parts about Mohammed in there or lines about Islam, but in “Orientalism” Said gives interesting examples from this poem . Really interesting how perception of Islam and Orient was formed since Dante’s times and earlier .

The second half of the book for now becomes more and more about Pakistan, where identity of main character is formed too.

“So it was that, at the age of ten, I found myself surrounded by trouble; and inside, full of marvels.”

I need more books like that. What a perfect mix of politics and magical realism . I have never seen that before I think. Partition of India is indeed fascinating topic, many other events are there too and I even learn more about Quran from this book honestly .

That’s a book that keeps me interested from the first page even though I had to read a bit more to get used more to author’s style. Being in genre of magical realism , it bring up important political topic in history of India and makes me learn new things .

Прочитала стереотипи про українців з етнографічних нарисів 19 століття від росіян… ух. Отримала вправу , де треба буде прочитати твір шкільної програми, який мені сподобався і який не сподобався та переоцінити їх.

Сьогодні про сором та провину. Сьогодні про поняття колоніального мислення.

Must read кожного українця ! Приємний бонус- малюнки , які пояснюють важливі речі + вправи , які читач може виконувати самостійно в рамах власної деколонізації. Ця книга є чудовим вступом до цієї теми і мотивує досліджувати її далі.

Плакати мені захотілося з перших сторінок. Читається дуже швидко, але мені невідомо , як я не втопилася у власних сльозах до 100 сторінки. Плакати хотілося що сторінки майже. Мій внутрішній плач та крик не зупинявся ані на мить.

This book is not what I expected it to be at all! Still worth it though .
Reading in hope that by the end I will find out more about Rebecca even more .

It’s good I am reading epub or I would throw this book in a wall few times by that time already. It makes me feel so much. Tess is just a woman of her time , she couldn’t have thought any other way, I know…being Tess in 21 th century still sucks , so…Somehow there was a break for something positive in this book, but then of course the worst happened . I know it will not get better.