Gender as the unsaid: exploring the interstices in edward said’s orientalism

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    As Robert J. C. Young astutely observes, "if Said denies that there is any actual Orient which could provide a true account of the Orient represented by Orientalism, how could he claim in any sense that the representation is false?" Said continues: "the Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined" (Said 2003, 63) and, one might add, all the actors are men on the theatrical stage of the Orient, whether the "Islamic Orient" or later, "the Asiatic East." Earlier in Orientalism, Said evokes Flaubert`s Egyptian courtesan, Kuchuk Hanem, whose . . .

     

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