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Jules Mohl: A Missing Link in the Complex Network of Nineteenth-Century Orientalism ?
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Even though Edward Said’s fervent denunciation of the ideologically charged and intellectually biased constructions of Orientalism was a necessary, and salutary call to awareness, which generated a whole spate of critical studies—and, indeed, was one of the founding stones for the whole movement of post-colonial studies—, one of its rather unfortunate side-effects was to implicitly discredit the figure of the Orientalists, those “savants” who, willingly or not, cooperated in the vast enterprise of Western domination of the East. In reality, here as everywhere, Said’s attitude should never be summed up in just one dismissive word, for, if one carefully reads through Orientalism, his positions will appear as far more nuanced than what critics seem to have made them. Although he is mostly intent on unveiling the myth of the Orientalist as “a hero rescuing the Orient from its obscurity, alienation and strangeness,”1 the global picture that emerges is a rather compounded one, which never...
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