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Orientalism — Introduction (excerpt)
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Orientalism — Introduction (excerpt)

Edward W. Said, 1978

The opening of Said's 1978 book, which named — and reorganized around — the Western academic and literary apparatus that produces 'the Orient' as a category of European …

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