One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the Oriental in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula

While Said focused on the perceptions and stereotypes of the Near East OC OrientalOCO in England, France and the United States, most of these essays study the decentering interplay between OC peripheralOCO areas of the Third World, OC semiperipheralOCO areas (Spain and Portugal since the second part of the seventeenth century), and marginalized social groups of the globe (Chicanos, African Americans, and Filipino Americans). They explore, for example, how China and the Far East in general are imagined an..."