Mounting real encounters forced latent and manifest Orientalism to converge

Evidence

Yet the distance between Orient and Occident was, almost paradoxically, in the process of being reduced throughout the nineteenth century. As the commercial, political, and other existential encounters between East and West increased (in ways we have been discussing all along), a tension developed between the dogmas of latent Orientalism, with its support in studies of the “classical” Orient, and the descriptions of a present, modern, manifest Orient articulated by travelers, pilgrims, statesmen, and the like. At some moment impossible to determine precisely, the tension caused a convergence of the two types of Orientalism. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 559

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the distinction between ‘latent’ (dogmatic, classical) and ‘manifest’ (contemporary, descriptive) Orientalism — a core vocabulary item for the field.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 559