...inert, incapable of resistance. In a quite constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on ... superiority which puts the westerner in a whole series...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand: [the European] could be there or could think about it with very little resistance on the Orient's part....

...East constructed by Europe to justify its authority, explains Said, "depends for its strategy on a flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner...relationships with the Orient without ever losing him the upper hand." 1 8. Greenwood, "A Night in the Workhouse" in Keating, Into Unknown England, p. 34. 19....

...the Spanish (36). The term "positional superiority" is Edward Said's. He describes it as a strategy which "puts the Westerner in a whole series of possible...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand" (7). 5. As Winthrop Jordan points out in White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812,...

...which was always an absolute presupposition of Orientalism. As Said said, "In a quite constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand. 35 Buddhist biographies of the Buddha thus were never taken as examples of common interests between...

...which was always an absolute presupposition of Orientalism. As Said said, "In a quite constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand.35 Buddhist biographies of the Buddha thus were never taken as examples of common interests between...

...Eurocentric discourse, its "flexible positional superiority," as Said writes incisively of Orientalism, "which puts the Westerner in a whole series of possible...without ever losing him the relative upper hand." 15 centric discourse remains enmeshed in Eurocentrism and proposes what amounts to no less than a fixed,...

...most apparent. In Said's own words: In a constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on this positional superiority, which puts the Westerner in...of possible relationships with the Orient without losing him the relative upper hand." Thus, in the analysis of colonial discourse presented in Orientalism,...

...constructed by Orientalism might also describe whiteness in general: "[It] depends for its strategy upon this flexible positional superiority, which puts the...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand."23 An "undergound self" with the "upper hand" is a particularly evocative definition of whiteness....

...positionalities could be produced. In a quite constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on the flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand.20 The 'him' of this statement is telling: for Said, in Orientalism at least, Orientalism is a...

...dominating, restructuring and having authority over the Orient. . . . Orientalism depends for its strategy on flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner...without ever losing him the relative upper hand." Orientalism (New York, Vintage Books, 1978), 3-7. I am aware of the implication that Said's refiguring...