Orientalism remains the pivotal and most-criticized study of Middle East imperialism
Evidence
Perhaps no work has forced more attention on imperialism in the Middle East, or provoked more criticism, than Edward Said’s Orientalism, first published in 1978. Said focused attention on a wide spectrum of media, political works, novels, poetry, and art to show how Europeans had created a virtual, textual reality of the “Orient” that both served and was engendered by the process of imperialism. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 66
Categorization
- XREF: Orientalism as a node connecting many prior reading threads on how colonial knowledge constructed difference; echoes the knowledge-power claims from the Frankfurt School material. — connects to: Orientalism persists by being internalized by the Orient itself and by new imperialism — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 819; Treating orientalism as mere colonial discourse is analytically hindering — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 81; Orientalism is a discourse, not a mirror of imperial political power — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 72 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Orientalism persists by being internalized by the Orient itself and by new imperialism — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 819; Treating orientalism as mere colonial discourse is analytically hindering — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 81; Orientalism is a discourse, not a mirror of imperial political power — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 72 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Orientalism is a discourse, not a mirror of imperial political power
#complicates(0.78) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 72 - Orientalism was internally divided rather than a monolithic colonial tool
#complicates(0.76) - Treating orientalism as mere colonial discourse is analytically hindering
#complicates(0.75) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 81 - Critique of Orientalism must begin with on-the-ground colonial practice, not texts
#complicates(0.74) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 38