Reflections on the “Orientalized Orientals”

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ID11886331
AuthorsNevzat Soguk (0000-0001-5923-9153, Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume18
Issue3
Pages361-384
Publication date1993-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAlternatives Global Local Political (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0304-3754 • E-ISSN: 2163-3150
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/030437549301800305
OpenAlexW2580590970
LanguageEN
Citations received16

What we really need is a critical language and a full-scale critical culture, not name calling or the rhetorical equivalent of political murder. Our purpose is to assess and critique power in the Arab world. Not according to grandiose schemas imported from Hegel and Stalin and so on: many of the miseries of the Arab left are ascribable to the importation of methodological instruments or Orientalist models from abroad having no relation to our life. We must ingeniously and imaginatively develop composite or hybrid models of the sort, for example, of Abdallah Laroui in North Africa, or Anwar Abdel Malek. Like-minded individuals have to give such a critique of power greater currency in their discussion. -Edward Said, Intellectuals and the War, 1991

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