Orientalism ignores how colonized intelligentsias received and modified Western texts

Evidence

A notable feature of Orientalism is that it examines the history of Western textualities about the non-West quite in isolation from how these textualities might have been received, accepted, modified, challenged, overthrown or reproduced by the intelligentsias of the colonized countries: not as an undifferentiated mass but as situated social agents impelled by our own conflicts, contradictions, distinct social and political locations, of class, gender, region, religious affiliation, and so on – hence a peculiar disjuncture in the architecture of the book. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 308

A notable feature of Orienta/ism is that it examines the his tory of Western textualities about the non-West quite in isolation from how these textualities might have been received, accepted, modified, challenged, overthrown or reproduced by the intelligentsias of the colonized countries: not as an undifferentiated mass but as situated social agents impelled by our own conflicts, contradictions, distinct soci-al and political locations, of class, gender, region, religious affiliation, and so onhence a peculiar disjuncture in the architecture of the book. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 703

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the later critique of reception studies; connects to the reader’s interest in how texts are actually received versus how they’re canonically framed.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 308; Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 703