Edward W. Said Quotes

It Remains The Professional Orientalist's Job To Piece Together A Portrait, A Restored Picture As It Were, Of The Orient Or The Oriental; Fragments, Such As Those Unearthed By Sacy, Supply The Material, But The Narrative Shape, Continuity, And Figures Are Constructed By The Scholar, For Whom Scholarship Consists Of Circumventing The Unruly (un-Occidental) Nonhistory Of The Orient With Orderly Chronicle, Portraits, And Plots.

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