The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard. By Ian Almond. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. Pp. 256. Pbk. ISBN: 978-1-84511-398-8. £17.99

Proponents of literary theories which are partially a product of the new political and social atmosphere of the last half of the 20th century have tried to set up a new relationship to modernism and modernity. That relationship included deconstruction of the hermetic systems of thought and turning to the “marginal” and “alternative”, and also the…