...to justify the former's privileges and aggressions. Orientalism tends to maintain what Said calls a "flexible positional superiority," which puts the Westerner in a whole series of possible relations with the Oriental, but without the Westerner ever losing the relative upper hand. My essay...

...scrutiny. The phenomenon Stepan describes is a form of orientalism, memorably delineated by Edward Said. Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible...have been otherwise, especially during the period of extraordinan,' European ascendancy from the late Renaissance to the present? . . . [T]here emerged...

...the relationship of Western power over the Orient to Western knowledge about the Orient. Said says: Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible...ascendancy from the late Renaissance to the present? The scientist, the scholar, the missionary, the trader, or the soldier was in, or thought about, the...

..."scientist" or "scholar," keeping in mind the antics of Leiris, Breton, and others "among the natives": Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand . . . The scientist, the scholar, the missionary, the trader, or the soldier was in, or thought about,...

...and so on)" (p. 64). Said (1978) further observes that such generalizing strategies also depend on a "flexible positional superiority, which puts the westerner...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand" (p. 7). Such a strategy of generalization that effaces cultural differences between peoples of various...

...Orientalist discourses, in which the representation of the Other is determined by what Edward Said calls a "flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand" (7).1 Rather, cultural difference in Asian American poetry is what Homi Bhabha calls "a process of...

...remarkable experiences' i1978: 1l. Further, he argues, 'Orientalism depends for its strategy on ... flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand' i 1978: 71. In this discourse the oriental is also associated with barbarism. It is my contention that...

...production of Orientalism. Said, therefore, stresses the hegemonic strategy of Orientalism in terms of its "flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand."56 Additionally, Said argues that Orientalism operates not as a political subject matter, but...

...emerged. The new discourse. Orientalism. expanded most during the nineteenth century and depended on a "positional superiority. which puts the Westerner...Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand" 1Said. 71. One of its constants has been the representation of Islam as innately oppressive to women....

...Orientalism, as Said explains, "depends for its strategy on this flexible positional superiority, which put the Westerner in a whole series of possible relationships...without ever losing him the relative upper hand." 6 Said has articulated eloquently that Orientalism, despite its seemingly coherent content, has been...