The West-and-Rest discourse became the dominant Western way of representing itself and others

Evidence

This is where the notion of “discourse” came in. A discourse is a way of talking about or representing something. It produces knowledge that shapes perceptions and practice. It is part of the way in which power operates. Therefore, it has consequences for both those who employ it and those who are “subjected” to it. The West produced many different ways of talking about itself and “the Others.” But what we have called the discourse of “the West and the Rest” became one of the most powerful and formative of these discourses. It became the dominant way in which, for many decades, the West represented itself and its relation to “the Other.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 687

The West produced many different ways of talking about itself and “the Others.” But what we have called the discourse of “the West and the Rest” became one of the most powerful and formative of these discourses. It became the dominant way in which, for many decades, the West represented itself and its relation to “the Other.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 687

Categorization

• XREF: Directly prefigures Said’s Orientalism and the Islamophobia field’s core assumption that representation constitutes its object.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 687