A review by maumaus
Orientalism by Edward W. Said

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

"No matter how much a single Oriental can escape the fences placed around him, he is first an Oriental, second a human, and last again a Oriental."

A critical survey of Western writing on the subaltern. Reads like a mine: hard to follow, yet once you find gold, you are a rich man.
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