Critique of Orientalism aimed at dialogue among interpretation communities, not nationalist assertion.

Evidence

But in all my works I remained fundamentally critical of a gloating and uncritical nationalism. The picture of Islam that I represented was not one of assertive discourse and dogmatic orthodoxy, but was based instead on the idea that communities of interpretation exist within and outside the Islamic world, communicating with each other in a dialogue of equals. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 851

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what Said’s corrective to Orientalism was — communities of interpretation in dialogue — as distinct from either Western domination or Arab nationalist assertiveness.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 851