The colonial field barred the colonized from speaking for themselves

Evidence

Only an Occidental could speak of Orientals, for example, just as it was the White Man who could designate and name the coloreds, or nonwhites. Every statement made by Orientalists or White Men (who were usually interchangeable) conveyed a sense of the irreducible distance separating white from colored, or Occidental from Oriental; moreover, behind each statement there resonated the tradition of experience, learning, and education that kept the Oriental-colored to his position of object studied by the Occidental-white, instead of vice versa. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 571

Categorization

• XREF: The asymmetric speaking position — only the Occidental may designate the Oriental — is a core construction-of-the-Other mechanism the reader’s later Islamophobia readings will assume. — connects to: Civilization annexes the excluded by making them speak their own disappearance — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 442
• DEFINE: Defines the ‘field’ concept: a commanded territory carrying peculiar modes and rituals of behavior, learning, and possession.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 571