Edward Said, Orientalism
Do people really understand this book? I learnt new words on every page - 'pluri-cultural', 'laicized', and 'dis-Oriental'. A sentence picked at random was To investigate Orientalism is also to propose intellectual ways for handling the methodological problems that history has brought forward, so to speak, in its subject matter, the Orient.' I've read and re-read that, and it doesn't seem to say anything over thean Orientalism includes studying the Orient.
'For a person who has never seen the Orient, Nerval once said to Gautier, a lotus is still a lotus; for me it is only a kind of onion.'
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