Edward Said
Palestinian-American literary critic (1935 to 2003); author of Orientalism (1978).
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The Orient was almost a European invention
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences.
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The Orient was almost a European invention
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences.
Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978) Said c. 1978
The Orient is not an inert fact of nature
the Orient is not an inert fact of nature.
Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978) Said c. 1978
The relationship between West and East is one of power and hegemony
The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony
Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978) Said c. 1978
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Orientalism is a political doctrine imposed on the Orient because it was weaker than the West
Orientalism is fundamentally a political doctrine willed over the Orient because the Orient was weaker than the West
Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978) Said c. 1978
In what they could say about the Orient, Europeans were racist, imperialist and almost wholly ethnocentric
every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978) Said c. 1978
Literature and culture are too often presumed to be politically innocent
Too often literature and culture are presumed to be politically, even historically innocent; it has regularly seemed otherwise to me
Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978) Said c. 1978
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