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NINA BERMAN, Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne: Zum Bild des Orients in der deutschsprachigen Kultur um 1900 (Stuttgart: M und P, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1996). Pp. 378. DM60.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2002

ANDREW ZIMMERMAN
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Nina Berman's Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne consists of a theoretical Introduction and a chapter each on three modern German-language authors who visited, and wrote extensively about, the Middle East: Karl May, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Else Lasker-Schüler. The argument is based on the analysis of literary texts, but Berman also weaves in discussions of the authors' own travels in the Near East, a wide range of contemporary Orientalist texts, and post-colonial theory. Thus, although her book primarily addresses specialists in German literature, it will also be of interest to anyone concerned with Orientalism and the functioning of imperialist and colonialist ideology.

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Book Review
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , May 2002 , pp. 399 - 401
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© 2002Cambridge University Press

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