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Nonfiction · Political criticism

Orientalism

Edward Said
1978 · 394 pages

Western scholarship on the East was never neutral, Said argues: scholars and novelists built an exotic, backward Orient that empire could claim to govern. He upended how the West studies everyone it ruled.

★ 7.0