JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY by University of Hawaii Press

Author:University of Hawaii Press
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2012-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

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Notes

1. Neue Deutsche Biographie[New German Biography] (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1953), s.v. "Garbe, Richard Karl," by Helmut Hoffmann; and Richard Garbe, Indische Reiseskizzen [Indian Travel Sketches] (Munich: Oskar Schloss Verlag, 1925), p. xii; henceforth, the Sketches. All translations in this paper are my own.

2. Paul Deussen, Erinnerungen an Indien[Memories of India] (Kiel, Leipzig: Verlag von Lipsius & Tischer, 1904).

3. Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). This paper is not intended to be another exercise in political correctness of the kind David Kopf, author of British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California, 1969), has often accused post-Orientalist scholars of engaging in. See, for example, Kopf's review of Christopher Bayly's Empire and Information (Cambridge University Press, 1996) in The Historian61, no. 2 (Winter 1999): 441-42; I do agree, though, with Ali Behdad's contention that fresh and ongoing critiques of Orientalism and the colonial encounter are still very much needed, because Orientalism as a "dominant discourse" is alive and well, in new and shifting disguises, even in our contemporary world; see Behdad, Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (Duke University Press, 1994); Wendy Doniger, "Presidential Address: 'I have Scinde': Flogging a Dead (White Male Orientalist) Horse" Journal of Asian Studies58, no. 4 (November 1999): 940-60.

4. Said, 16-19. According to Said, "The sheer quality, consistency, and mass of British, French and American writing on the Orient lifts it above the doubtless crucial work done in Germany, Italy, Russia, and elsewhere."

5. See Kamakshi Murti, India: The Seductive and Seduced Other of German Orientalism (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001); Herman W. Tull, "F. Max Mueller and A. B. Keith: 'Twaddle,' the 'Stupid' Myth, and the Disease of Indology," Numen38, fasc. 1: 30; and Linda Dowling, "Victorian Oxford and the Science of Language," PMLA97, no. 2 (March 1982), 163, 165. Also see section below on German Orientalism and India.

6. Rosane Rocher, "British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: The Dialectics of Knowledge and Government," in Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, South Asia Seminar Series, ed. Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1993), p. 215.

7. Said's Culture and Imperialism(New York: Vintage Books, 1993) is the best example of this broader attack.

8. Said, Orientalism, pp. 3, 20, 95.

9. Edward Said, "Orientalism: An Afterword," Raritan14 (Winter 1995): 32-33.

10. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Constance Farrington (first published 1961; New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991).

11. Keith Windshuttle, for example, in "Edward Said's Orientalism Revisited" (Quadrant, Jan. 2000), has attacked Said's academic arguments and personal credibility with vehemence, claiming that Said, a distinguished and privileged American academic at Columbia University, is hardly an authentic spokesperson for Arab or other victims of Western hegemony. Windshuttle also questions Said's account of his life as a persecuted Palestinian in Jerusalem before the Second World War. Timothy Brennan, in "The Illusion of a Future: Orientalism as Travelling Theory" (Critical Inquiry26, Spring 2000), also attempts to take some of the halo off Said by arguing that

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