Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
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Birth: | 1st November, 1935 |
Death: | 25th September, 2003 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Critic, Professor |
Edward Wadie Said was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. He was a Palestine-born American author, critic, professor, and comparative literature at Columbia University. As a cultural critic, Said is known for the book Orientalism, a critical analysis of the culturally inaccurate representations that are the bases of Orientalism — the Western study of the Eastern world that presents how Westerners perceive and represent Orientals.
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