Printing permanently canonized colonial distortions of non-European peoples

Evidence

The growing popularity of books during this period in part explains why the mythologies have become part of the modern social imaginary. “Culturally arrogant and ethnocentric observations of non-European peoples were given immortality in western culture by the printed page.” Muslim lands were also prone to exaggeration and fantasy. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 369

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Graduate students weaponize home-country texts as anti-canonical counter-documents — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 328