My response to Laila Lalami's post on Said's Orientalism appears today on the Great Issues Forum website.
The first paragraph follows below:
In her essay on the scope of Edward Said's Orientalism, Laila Lalami traces the orientalist lineage of justifications of British hegemony in the 19th century to the rationale for expanded American power in the 21st. On its face, this is a valuable contribution insofar as Said is interested in examining the intimate, mutually constitutive relationship between extensions of western power in the east and the production of orientalist knowledge.
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