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Literature and culture are too often presumed to be politically innocent
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- Edward Said Literary critic (1935 to 2003) whose Orientalism (1978)…
Too often literature and culture are presumed to be politically, even historically innocent; it has regularly seemed otherwise to me
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↗Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978)archive.org
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