Leaving key emotion-words untranslated resists monolingual Western hegemony over meaning
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- Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field (similarity 0.85)
- Orientalism operates as a constraint on thought, not a positive doctrine. (similarity 0.85)
- Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters (similarity 0.84)
- Specific meaning arises only from an arbitrary contingent break (similarity 0.83)
- Orientalist definitions can override a thinker’s own human sympathy for real suffering (similarity 0.83)
- Orientalists recycled predecessors’ texts instead of observing the real Orient (similarity 0.83)
- The Orientalist expert becomes the representative Oriental himself (similarity 0.82)
- The monologue form makes readers complicit in the Othering the novel critiques (similarity 0.82)
- Common sense is ambiguous and conservative, resisting new truths (similarity 0.82)
- Sinn precedes meaning as the horizon of possibilities (similarity 0.82)
- Full cultural assimilation cannot erase ineradicable traces of another place (similarity 0.81)
- The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the true source of the tradition. (similarity 0.81)
- Orientalist writing reduces the Orient to an occasion for Western male reverie. (similarity 0.81)
- Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences (similarity 0.81)