Modern Orientalism expanded representational range after the late eighteenth century

Evidence

As Hussain states, this process established ‘an absolute and systematic difference between the West … and the Orient, which is aberrant, undeveloped and inferior’. More worrying for him though, and in offering some explanation of what was to follow, Hussain explains that what emerged was a notion and preconception of the Orient that was ‘uniform and incapable of defining itself … either to be feared … or to be controlled’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 188 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Romantic restorative reconstruction shaped Orientalist writing’s form and intent; Orientalist scholarship expanded in tandem with European imperial conquest.; Orientalism fixed the Orient as uniform, undeveloped, and incapable of self-definition — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 188 (+2 more)

Related

• Orientalism defines the Orient as innately resistant to change and modernity (similarity 0.91)
• Orientalism fixed the Orient as uniform, undeveloped, and incapable of self-definition (similarity 0.89)
• Orientalist science and personal utterance alike erase the modern Orient’s human reality (similarity 0.89)
• Orientalism fixes the Orient as passive reactor to the West’s self-assigned agency (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalist scholarship edited the Orient by excising whatever offended European norms (similarity 0.88)
• Essentialist Orientalist vision erases historical development in favor of unchanging geographic types. (similarity 0.88)
• Latent Orientalism denies the Orient any possibility of development or transformation (similarity 0.87)
• The Orient is constituted as absence while the Orientalist constitutes himself as presence (similarity 0.87)
• European representation of the Orient outweighs actual Oriental lived experience (similarity 0.87)
• Orientalism’s essentialism hides both historical change and the Orientalist’s interests (similarity 0.87)
• Even sympathetic Orientalists denied the Orient modernity by casting it as ancient and Semitic. (similarity 0.87)
• Modern Orientalism is defined by expanded representational range, not greater accuracy (similarity 0.87)
• Single discrete studies confirmed the Orient’s total essential character (similarity 0.87)
• Orientalist typing subordates individual Arab experience to a fixed collective essence (similarity 0.87)
• Shared intellectual authority over the Orient unified otherwise divergent national Orientalisms (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Orientalism fixed the Orient as uniform, undeveloped, and incapable of self-definition #complicates (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 188