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4992397 No.4992397[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

I just started reading this cause its been so god damn influential and people won't shut up about it. What does /lit/ think about this book?

>> No.4992487

Its central theses are basically correct. Some of the more detailed arguments are off; Sa'id gets a bit butthurt and goes overboard attacking some scholars and their works (though he's right about Bernard Lewis being kind of a silly twat.) Worth a read.

t. Middle Eastern studies

>> No.4993569

>>4992397
I wish I could remember more but I enjoyed it and agreed with it.

>> No.4993572

>>4992487
Basically this. Overall, it's right, and was well overdue, and it's basic premise should be canon in the thinking of anyone who isn't a fuckwit. But it's not a necessary cover-to-cover read.

>> No.4993577

>>4993572
I got one of those apostrophes wrong, sorry /lit/.

>> No.4993596

>>4993577
"Sorry" ain't gonna cut it, kid... *hands you katana* Time to commit honorable sudoku

>> No.4993651

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/enough-said-false-scholarship-edward-said

>Said rolled American racism and European colonialism into one mélange of white oppression of darker-skinned peoples. He was not the only thinker to have forged this amalgam, but his unique further contribution was to represent “Orientals” as the epitome of the dark-skinned; Muslims as the modal Orientals; Arabs as the essential Muslims; and, finally, Palestinians as the ultimate Arabs. Abracadabra—Israel was transformed from a redemptive refuge from two thousand years of persecution to the very embodiment of white supremacy.

And regarding OP's pic: That kind of soft core porn became popular *after* the heyday of colonialism.

>> No.4993664

>>4993651
>That kind of soft core porn became popular *after* the heyday of colonialism.

Yeah, but that in itself isn't an issue to argue necessarily--art can still retain a common mode of thought or social philosophy (like colonialism) well after the fact.