Orientalisme
Said, Edward: Orientalismen, 2004. Bokklubben.
- Berit Thorbjørnsrud: Innledende essay
- Said 'Forord (2003)'
- Forfatterens innledning
- Kap. I I Hvem er orientaleren?
- Kap. I II Innbilt geografi og dens forestillinger
- Kap. III I Latent og manifest orientalisme
- Kap. III IV Den siste fasen
De samme kapitlene av Saids bok kan gjerne leses på engelsk (flere utgaver), eller i en av de tidligere norske utgavene. Da må imidlertid Saids 'Forord (2003)' og Thorbjørnruds 'Innledende essay' leses i tillegg.
*Kopf, David. 'Hermeneutics versus history': Journal of Asian Studies, 1980 (11 s.). s.495-506.
Orientalisme og makt
*Brekke, Torkel: 'Kampen mot de orientalske despoter': Nytt norsk tidsskrift, 2006 (under utgivelse).
Områdestudier
*Palat, Ravi Arvind. 'Area studies after 9/11, requiescat in pace': Conference paper: The question of Asia in the new global order, 2004. s.1-23.
*Cumings, Bruce: 'Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War', i: Cumings, Bruce: "Parallax Visions. Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations, London: Duke University Press 2002. s.173-204.
Filologi og kulturforståelse
Helge Jordheim: Lesningens vitenskap: Utkast til en ny filologi. Universitsforlaget, Oslo 2001, s. 27-78 og 123-243.
*Halvor Eifring: Linguistics for students of Asian and African languages. Manuskript. Utdrag om språk og tanke. (13 sider)
Kulturkrig? Huntington og kritikken av ham
*Mamdani, Mahmood. 'Good Muslim, bad Muslim': American Anthropologist, 2002.
*Abu-Lughod, Lila. 'Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthropological reflections on cultural relativism and its others': American Anthropologist, 2002.
*Huntington, Samuel P. The clash of civilizations?: Foreign Affairs , 1993. s.22-49.
*Ajami, Fouad The summoning: 'But they said, we will not hearken': Foreign Affairs , 1993. s.2-9.
*Mahbubani, Kishore. The dangers of Decadence: What the rest can teach the west: Foreign Affairs , 1993. s.10-14.
*Bartley, Robert L. The case for optimism: The west should believe in itself: Foreign Affairs , 1993. s.15-18.
*Binyan, Liu. Civilization grafting: No culture is an island: Foreign Affairs, 1993. s.19-21.
*Kirkpatrick, Jeane J., and others. The modernizing imperative: Tradition and change: Foreign Affairs , 1993. s.22-27.
*Huntington, Samuel P. If not civilizations, what? Paradigms of the post-cold war world: Foreign Affairs, 1993. s.186-194.
*Kaplan, Robert D. The coming anarchy: How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet: Atlantic Monthly , 1994. 20s..
*Lewis, Bernard. The roots of Muslim rage: Policy, 2001-2002. s.17-26.
*Tuastad, Dag. Neo-orientalism and the new barbarism thesis: aspects of symbolic violence in the Middle East conflict(s): Third World Quarterly, 2003. s.591-600.
Kritisk feminisme
Narayan, Uma: Dislocating cultures. Identities, traditions, and third world feminism, s.1-41, 81-159 . Routledge: New York / London.
*Thorbjørnsrud, Berit. Weeping for the Muslim Cinderellas. A lament of tears shed though not shared: Norsk Tidsskrift for migrasjonsforskning, 2003. 18s..
Reiseskildringer
*Kim Sun-ju. 2004. “Representing Korea as the ‘Other’: Ernst J. Oppert’s A Forbidden Land: Voyages to the Corea” In The Review of Korean Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 145~164.
*Park Chihang. 2002. “Land of the Morning Calm, Land of the Rising Sun: The East Asia Travel Writings of Isabella Bird and George Curzon”. In Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 36, Issue 3, pp. 513~534.
*Ryang, Sonya. 1997. “Japanese Travellers’ Accounts of Korea” In East Asian History, No. 13-14, pp. 133-152.
*Todd, Henry. 2005. “Sanitizing Empire: Japanese Articulations of Korean Otherness and the Construction of Early Colonial Seoul, 1905-1919”. In Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 639-676.
Postkolonialisme
Gandhi, Leela: Postcolonial theory: A critical introduction, 1998. Kap. 1-3, 6-9 = 137 s.
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