Edward Said
Palestinian-American · 1935–2003
Palestinian-American literary theorist and public intellectual whose "Orientalism" reshaped postcolonial studies and cultural criticism.
Wikipedia ↗“The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences.”
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“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others.”
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“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points.”
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“The intellectual's role is to speak the truth to power.”
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“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.”
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“Humanism is the only, I would go so far as to say the final, resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
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