Anti-colonial cultural critique existed for a century before Orientalism yet Said ignored it

Evidence

And if one steps out of the Euro-American traditions, one is struck by the fact that neither the architecture of Orienta/ism nor the kind of knowledge the book generally represents has any room in it for criticisms of colonial cultural domination of rhe kind that have been available in Larin America and even India, on an expanding scale, since the late nineteenth century. In fact, it is one of the disagreeable surprises in Orienta/ism 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. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 709

Categorization

• XREF: Bears on the ‘lineage’ question in the reader’s research: whether theoreticians like Said can claim novelty for discourse moves that colonized intellectuals long practiced. — connects to: Anti-colonial cultural criticism predates Orientalism in the colonized world — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 311; Anti-colonial critique before Said was overwhelmingly Marxist-affiliated — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 320; Anti-colonial movements disproved the mosque-state-fusion Orientalist stereotype

Broader Connections

• Anti-colonial cultural criticism predates Orientalism in the colonized world #corroborates (0.95) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 311
• Anti-colonial critique before Said was overwhelmingly Marxist-affiliated #qualifies (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 320