Why are we not still engaging with Orientalism? I feel like it’s woefully underrated.
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When I (try to) teach him I also point out some of the objections to his ideas as well. That said I always find students like Said. He provides such a powerful and politically engaged toolkit for reading critically.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I thought his autobiography 'Out of Place' was also good for getting a sense of how his life informed his thinking. As an EM scholar you might like his account of watching Gielgud's Hamlet as a boy in post-war Egypt.
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Toward the end of the intro of Orientalism he talks about his own positionality vis-a-vis the object of his study. It is a powerful reminder of the forces the shape our scholarship.
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