Orientalism reflects the producing culture rather than its putative object

Evidence

Orientalism responded more to the culture that produced it than to its putative object, which was also produced by the West. Thus the history of Orientalism has both an internal consistency and a highly articulated set of relationships to the dominant culture surrounding it. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 91

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the critical-theory toolkit: the ‘Other’ is produced by the discourse that claims to describe it. Connects to later Islamophobia analyses of how stereotypes reveal more about the West than about Muslims. — connects to: Representation in Orientalism is theatrical confinement of the whole East.; Oriental representations become repetitive pseudoincarnations serving narcissistic Western needs.; Orientalist representation is a closed, self-reinforcing system immune to empirical data — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 188 (+19 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 91

Broader Connections

• Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge #exemplifies (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89
• Orientalism is knowledge that disciplines its object through dominating frameworks #corroborates (0.82)