Orientalist writing is pre-eminently a visual regime of expert and beholding self.

Evidence

The interchange in the Orientalist’s writing between his expert self and his testimonial, beholding self as Western representative is pre-eminently worked out in visual terms. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 629

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: The visual emphasis of Orientalist regard connects to the ‘scopic regime’ concept used in later analyses of how Muslims are framed.

Related

• Orientalism regularizes how the Orient is taught and administered (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalism fixes the Oriental as passive object while the Orientalist holds interpretive power (similarity 0.87)
• Orientalism operates as both an academic discipline and a repository of cultural images (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism’s scientific pretense requires positing a permanent, unchanging Orient (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism must be examined at both the general and the individual level (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism operates as a discourse with material institutional support (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism’s harm lies in its thought structure, not its content’s positivity (similarity 0.85)
• The Orientalist’s claim to expertise depends on the Orient’s presumed incapacity for self-interpretation (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism divides into a fixed unconscious core and changeable surface views (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalist scholarship is inseparable from imperial power and its orthodox attitudes (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalist typing subsumed individual traits under a presumed Oriental essence. (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism’s error is essentializing both Orient and West from above (similarity 0.85)
• The Orientalist’s scholarly work is essentially an act of interpretation from outside, not participation (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism is only the visible tip of a larger modern structure. (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalist texts were designed for Western readers, not Oriental ones. (similarity 0.84)