Orientalism in Image and Text: Video Interview w/Professor Ali Behdad in Three Parts
Ali Behdad
is Professor of English and
Comparative Literature and Chair of Comparative Literature at UCLA. He
has published widely on a broad range of topics on the politics of
culture, immigration, Orientalism, and 19th-century photography. He is
the author of Belated Travelers:
Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution
(Duke University Press, 1994), A
Forgetful Nation: On
Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States
(Duke University Press, 2005), and the co-editor of A Companion to
Comparative Literature
(Blackwell, 2010). He is currently working on a book tentatively
titled: Contact
Vision: On Photography and Orientalism.
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