Orientalism regularizes how the Orient is taught and administered

Evidence

Orientalism can thus be regarded as a manner of regularized (or Orientalized) writing, vision, and study, dominated by imperatives, perspectives, and ideological biases ostensibly suited to the Orient. The Orient is taught, researched, administered, and pronounced upon in certain discrete ways. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 506

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines Orientalism as a regularized mode of writing and study, the operative definition the field’s later critics take up.

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