British occupation was seen as killing the imagined Orient

Evidence

Said’s Orientalism is not a book about the Orient per se. It is a book that analyzes Western discourse about the Orient, including Islam and Arab peoples, and how this discourse relates to Western domination over the Orient in light of the colonial projects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British imperial presence was conceived as permanently transforming the Orient; Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206; Imperial theses produced the Orient as a space to be cultivated and possessed (+4 more)

Related

• British Oriental imagination was constrained by actual colonial possession (similarity 0.89)
• British imperial presence was conceived as permanently transforming the Orient (similarity 0.89)
• British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.88)
• The West framed the Orient as uniform, indefinable, and to be feared or controlled (similarity 0.87)
• Orient studies served Europe’s needs, not Asia’s reality (similarity 0.87)
• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination (similarity 0.87)
• Single discrete studies confirmed the Orient’s total essential character (similarity 0.86)
• Europeans claimed to possess the Orient’s souls beyond territorial power (similarity 0.86)
• All Western writers treated the Orient as fixed, feminine, and needing redemption (similarity 0.86)
• The Westerner’s intimate estrangement from the Orient reinforces the Orientalist discourse built on it. (similarity 0.86)
• Western scholarship constructed the East as savage to justify imperial conquest. (similarity 0.86)
• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it (similarity 0.85)
• Even sympathetic Orientalists denied the Orient modernity by casting it as ancient and Semitic. (similarity 0.85)
• Western scholars controlled the academic study of the Orient even as late as 1927. (similarity 0.85)
• Said’s survey concentrated on British and French varieties of Orientalism that supported the British and French Empires as commercial enterprises constructed from colonialism. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• British imperial presence was conceived as permanently transforming the Orient #qualifies (0.90)
• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination #corroborates (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206
• British Oriental imagination was constrained by actual colonial possession #complicates (0.85)
• Imperial theses produced the Orient as a space to be cultivated and possessed #corroborates (0.80)
• The West framed the Orient as uniform, indefinable, and to be feared or controlled #corroborates (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 188
• Orientalism fixes the Orient as passive reactor to the West’s self-assigned agency #corroborates (0.80)
• Orientalism fixed the Orient as uniform, undeveloped, and incapable of self-definition #corroborates (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 188