Anti-colonial critique of culture predates Said by nearly a century outside Euro-America

Evidence

And if one steps out of the Euro-American traditions, one is struck by the fact that neither the architecture of Orientalism nor the kind of knowledge the book generally represents has any room in it for criticisms of colonial cultural domination of the kind that have been available in Latin America and even India, on an expanding scale, since the late nineteenth century. In fact, it is one of the disagreeable surprises in Orientalism that it refuses to acknowledge that vast tradition, virtually as old as colonialism itself, which has existed in the colonized countries as well as among the metropolitan Left traditions, and has always been occupied, precisely, with drawing up an inventory of colonial traces in the minds of people on both sides of the colonial divide. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 71

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s project on Egyptian vs Sudanese coloniality: Self-critique by colonized subjects (like Egyptian intellectuals) is a thread worth watching alongside Said’s frame.
• DEFINE: Establishes what a non-Orientalist genealogy of anti-colonial cultural critique looks like.