Edward Said
Person on 3 sites
Literary critic (1935 to 2003) whose Orientalism (1978) argued that Western scholarship and art about the East were bound up with Western power over it.
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8 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The Orient was almost a European invention (opens korrents.com)
“The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences.”
- The Orient is not an inert fact of nature (opens korrents.com)
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The relationship between West and East is one of power and hegemony (opens korrents.com)
“The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony”
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The Orient was almost a European invention (opens korrents.com)