... aspect of Said's Orientalism centered around early Western scholarly dominance of creating a reality for The Orient through literature, but now we will look more at the politics and economics behind Orientalism, colonialism, and postcolonial thought and how this influences current geopolitics. The term, "colony" comes from the Latin word ˜colonus', meaning farmer. Colonialism, in practice, is the domination, which thus ... Loti, a writer known for his descriptive writing, became partial to the ˜mysteriousness of Morocco' throughout the novel and by the end of the journey begs the Sult...

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