Description A Westerner writing about Istanbul "comes up against the Orient as a European or American first, as an individual second," writes Edward Said.
Looking at texts by Writers who do not necessarily define themselves as Orientalists, Kim Fortuny broadens the possible ways of thinking ab.
The American Writers gathered in this collection are approached from the willed double perspective advocated by Said: as historically and culturally positioned observers and as individuals.
Description A Westerner writing about Istanbul "comes up against the Orient as a European or American first, as an individual second," writes Edward Said