... was unrecognizable by Western scholars. Thus, claiming that aside from the often-discussed political supremacy of the West, Western scholars have also successfully employed the interpretation of the Orient's languages, history and culture for themselves by writing The Orient's past and constructing its modern identities from a perspective that views Europe as the norm and The Orient as the socially-constructed, " ... lead second-representation. At the core of many of Said's key arguments is the critical link, historically and presently, between knowledge and power. While this has been exe...

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