The Orientalist ‘Arab’ is constructed as a sign of dumbness and overarticulateness at once

Evidence

Muteness is an important part of what Shouby is talking about, since in his entire paper he never once quotes from the literature of which the Arab is so inordinately proud. Where, then, does Arabic influence the Arab mind? Exclusively within the mythological world created for the Arab by Orientalism. The Arab is a sign for dumbness combined with hopeless overarticulateness, poverty combined with excess. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 815

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the paradoxical construction of the Orientalized subject — simultaneous deficiency and excess.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 815