Orientalism’s 1978 reception was shaped by a specific US political conjuncture

Evidence

Orienta/ism appeared in 1978, a rather precise point in the history of the world, in the history of the demographic composition and reorganization of the political conjuncture in the United States, and in the history of intellectual productions in the metropolitan countries generally. Each of these aspects deserves some comment because all have some bearing -on how books were being read, and how this book in particular intervened in intellectual history. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 785

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalism criticism became a politicized ad hominem charge, not an epistemic critique — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 136; Postwar hostility to Orientalism grew from political conflict, not scholarship defects — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 2073

Broader Connections

• Postwar hostility to Orientalism grew from political conflict, not scholarship defects #corroborates (0.85) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 2073
• Orientalism criticism became a politicized ad hominem charge, not an epistemic critique #corroborates (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 136