"From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference offers a series of rich, insightful, and probing reflections on the contemporary state of postcolonial theory. Taken as a whole, the book is a fitting homage to Foucault’s great insight concerning the inherently distortional nature of all classification. The essays collected here urge us to confront the ways in which our most trusted ideational schemes are predisposed toward arbitrary and prejudicial modes of conceptualizing otherness and difference. This pathbreaking anthology is must-read for scholars working in the humanities and social sciences" - Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York"Exposing the scandalous persistence of Orientalism in the human sciences, this volume shows how postcolonialism institutionalizes the very formation it claims to critique. Going beyond the cultural-academic and political-administrative co-ordinates of Orientalism as delineated by Edward Said, the contributors demonstrate how Orientalism endures through Occidentalism, Orientalism-in-reverse, and self-Orientalisation." Srinivas Aravamudan, Dean of Humanities and Professor of English, Duke University
