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How has the presence of Muslim Europeans, especially after September 11 exacerbated the deep-seated Orientalist anxieties in Europe?
This Orientalist unease with Islam goes hand in hand with the interest in bringing to fore the so-called distinctive European characteristics and thereby distinguishing the Europeanness of Europe. I trace how orientalism refigures in the discourse of European cultural identity by way of the expulsion of Islam from what is deemed to be the proper identity of Europe. I examine the role of the discourse of “cultural difference” in this exclusion, which is in fact a secularized version of a religious discourse that now is fundamental in the refashioning of European identity.
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21 February 2008 at 6:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities |
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