- The use of poetry and the use of criticism, T.S. Eliot
- The Bible as Literature, T.S. Eliot
- Neo-Orientalism and the Left, Imran Shamsunahar, Quilette Magazine
- It is the West which is the vehicle of history and Western actors alone who are considered to be moral agents. Should anything occur in the East, it is because Westerners caused it, either intentionally or not. The East is simultaneously exoticized and treated as a blank slate, its own ideologies and cultural views somehow both romanticized and irrelevant. Its peoples are inherently innocent and perpetually vulnerable, requiring outside salvation both in their native lands and their adopted Western homes.
- Racism, Anti-Orientalism and Orientalism, Jonathan Kay, Quilette Magazine
- The irony here is that the commenter is calling Adam a ‘racist imperialist’ while actually recycling an old orientalist trope — that ‘Arab culture’ is somehow fixed and homogenous, and impenetrable to all but Arabs themselves.
- The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot (Vol 4), Introduction
- The Kingdom of the Wicked, Anthony Burgess
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