The Orientalist’s style alternates narrative description with reasserted definition and judgment.

Evidence

Since the White Man, like the Orientalist, lived very close to the line of tension keeping the coloreds at bay, he felt it incumbent on him readily to define and redefine the domain he surveyed. Passages of narrative description regularly alternate with passages of rearticulated definition and judgment that disrupt the narrative; this is a characteristic style of the writing produced by Oriental experts who operated using Kipling’s White Man as a mask. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 572

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the core stylistic hallmark of Orientalist prose: the oscillation between narrative and reasserted definition, tied to the White Man as a mask Kipling supplied.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 572
• XREF: connects to: The Orientalist confirms rather than revises the reader’s existing views; Orientalist style transforms its human subjects into objects of an unaccountable observer — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 784; Flaubert’s Orientalism works through deliberately styled vivid reportage rather than reduction. (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Orientalist confirms rather than revises the reader’s existing views; Orientalist style transforms its human subjects into objects of an unaccountable observer — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 784; Flaubert’s Orientalism works through deliberately styled vivid reportage rather than reduction. (+2 more)