Said’s later essays reversed his Orientalism critique into a desire for Western location

Evidence

What is significant in terms of authorial intentions, meanwhile, is the fact that the turn from a wholesale denunciation of the West, so uncompromising in Orientalism, to an equally sweeping desire for a location in the West, which these latest essays assert, is now complete. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 398

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader debate over postcolonial theory’s complicity with metropolitan academia, resonant with critiques in fields the reader has engaged. — connects to: Said’s later work privileges Western-based writers while raging against non-Western societies

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• Said’s critique reified Orientalism as a category masking deeper structures (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism argued Western literatures were complicit in colonialism (similarity 0.84)
• Said contradicts Orientalism by treating Western literatures as autonomous. (similarity 0.84)
• Said’s critique essentializes the West as much as it claims Orientalists essentialize the East (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism is a differentiated analysis, not a blanket attack on the West (similarity 0.83)
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