Nerval’s voyage resisted the discursive finality of orthodox Orientalism.

Evidence

Despite this, it is difficult to conclude that the meanings and understandings that were evident in Orientalist discourses were part of a continuum that linked the medieval John of Damascus with the Will Cummins of the contemporary. Instead, Orientalist discourse was a juncture in the evolution of those discourses that are evident in the here and now as indeed they were in the distant past. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 189 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalist discourse was a juncture rather than a continuous line of anti-Islam thought — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 189

Related

• Orientalist discourse was a juncture rather than a continuous line of anti-Islam thought (similarity 0.93)
• Islamic Orientalism resisted internal critique while cognate fields engaged it. (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism turned scattered testimony into a domesticated, categorical simulacrum of the Orient (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalism operates as a constraint on thought, not a positive doctrine. (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalism is only the visible tip of a larger modern structure. (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalism functions as a self-enclosed Western text rather than knowledge of an actual Orient. (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism’s intent was critique, not affirmation of antithetical identities (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism operates as a discourse with material institutional support (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalist scholarship widens rather than bridges the East-West divide (similarity 0.80)
• Treating orientalism as mere colonial discourse is analytically hindering (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism began as discourse before hardening into material institutions and state policy. (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalist discourse was addressed exclusively to Western audiences, never to Orientals (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalist training typically converted initial fascination into a debunking project (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalist categories can contradict what Muslims would say about themselves (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism fixes the Orient as passive reactor to the West’s self-assigned agency (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Orientalist discourse was a juncture rather than a continuous line of anti-Islam thought #corroborates (0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 189