"I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that……" — Edward Said

"I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other."

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