Said’s author effectively resembles Foucault’s dead author despite disclaimers

Evidence

But if this is the case, and if, as we have already seen, every European (or is it every Orientalist?) is a racist and imperialist because no one can “resist the pressure” of one’s “nation” or one’s “scholarly tradition” (204, 271), then the author in Said’s thinking appears to resemble Foucault’s dead author. One then wonders why Said felt obliged to register his disagreement with Foucault on this crucial point. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 80

Categorization

• QUESTION: Pursue the internal tension in Said’s methodology: how did he square author interpellation with denouncing Orientalists as individuals?