Said defines Orientalism as a disciplined matrix of dreams, images, and vocabularies

Evidence

“Orientalism,” Said remarks, “is the discipline by which the Orient was (and is) approached systematically, as a topic of learning, discovery and practice.” “In addition,” he adds, Orientalism “designate[s] that collection of dreams, images and vocabularies available to anyone who has tried to talk about what lies east of the dividing line” (1985, 73). Like the Orient, the Rest quickly became the subject of the languages of dream and Utopia, the object of a powerful fantasy. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 607

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional anchor: Orientalism as both scholarly discipline and fantasy-vocabulary — the dual nature Hall builds his whole ‘West and the Rest’ framework on.
• XREF: This is the exact conceptual toolkit demanded by the reader’s stated purpose — the orientalism concept that Islamophobia studies presupposes. — connects to: Said defined Orientalism as scholarship tied to governing the Middle East