The colonial hero’s identification with the colonized serves his own benefit
Evidence
Yet in reality we had borne the vicarious for our own sakes, or at least because it was pointed for our benefit: and could escape from this knowledge only by a make-belief in sense as well as in motive. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 615
Categorization
- XREF: Lawrence’s own admission of self-serving vicariousness prefigures the critique of liberal sympathy as self-regarding. — connects to: The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes; Colonial discourse lets the colonizer speak for the colonized while silencing them — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 114
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 615
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes; Colonial discourse lets the colonizer speak for the colonized while silencing them — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 114
Broader Connections
- The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes
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