Said structures Orientalism as a mirror-reversal of Auerbach’s Mimesis

Evidence

If there is an absent antihero in Said’s own counter-classic, it is Erich Auerbach. If Auerbach began with Homer, Said roo must begin with Greek tragedy; and a special venom must be reserved for Dante because … Dante, after all, is the hero of Auerbach’s account. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 644

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalism was written as a counter-history to Auerbach’s Mimesis — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 286; Said locates Orientalism’s founding structure in Aeschylean tragedy — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 737

Broader Connections

• Orientalism was written as a counter-history to Auerbach’s Mimesis #corroborates (1.00) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 286