Postwar postcolonial critiques transformed Orientalism’s meaning from scholarship into ideology of empire

Evidence

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Orientalists became a more serious quantity, because by then the reaches of imaginative and actual geography had shrunk, because the Oriental-European relationship was determined by an unstoppable European expansion in search of markets, resources, and colonies, and finally, because Orientalism had accomplished its self-metamorphosis from a scholarly discourse to an imperial institution. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 265 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

By the middle of the twentieth century, and with the majority of “third world” countries gaining so-called independence, Orientalism entered a new, postcolonialist stage, one that left it with residues of the colonialist heritage, but with altered forms of power. This stage, beginning sometime after World War II and partly ending in the 1980s, shifted the focus of the field from direct forms of colonialism and its justification as mission civilisatrice to a reelaboration and adjustment of the ways in which the “Orient” was now to be seen. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 467 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Said defined Orientalism as scholarship tied to governing the Middle East; Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology; Orientalism’s meaning shifted after post-war deconolization critiques (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Orientalism metamorphosed from scholarly discourse into an imperial institution #corroborates (0.95) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 265
• Orientalism’s paradigms confirm rather than contest imperial domination #corroborates (0.85)
• Postcolonial Orientalism preserved colonialist residues under altered forms of power. #expands (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 467
• Orientalist scholarship mounted political and ideological edges rather than neutral knowledge #corroborates (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 82
• Orientalism criticism became a politicized ad hominem charge, not an epistemic critique #qualifies (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 136
• American empire inherited and reformulated European Orientalism after World War II #expands (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 724
• Postwar hostility to Orientalism grew from political conflict, not scholarship defects #qualifies (0.72) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 2073
• Orientalism persists by being internalized by the Orient itself and by new imperialism #expands (0.72) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 819