What Edward Said thinks about Europe

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Literary critic (1935 to 2003) whose Orientalism (1978) argued that Western scholarship and art about the East were bound up with Western power over it.

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2 dated positions, c. 1978, in their own words. Our reading of what Edward Said has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1978

   Our readingThe Orient was almost a European invention

   Their wordsThe 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)archive.org All 6 from this book

3. c. 1978

   Our readingIn what they could say about the Orient, Europeans were racist, imperialist and almost wholly ethnocentric

   racism

   Their wordsevery European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

   ↗Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978)archive.org All 6 from this book