#subalternstudies — Public Fediverse posts
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“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism
#culture #subalternStudies #islamophobia #orientalism #whiteSupremacy #mandates #history #EdwardSaid #hegemony #quote #quotes
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"We can better understand the persistence and the durability of saturating hegemonic systems like culture when we realize that their internal constraints upon writers and thinkers were productive, not unilaterally inhibiting."
― Edward Said
#culture #subalternStudies #domination #orientalism #OttomanEmpire #mandates #history #EdwardSaid #hegemony #quote #quotes