Saturday, November 4, 2006
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
The West Studies the East, and Trouble Follows - '...Mr. Irwin delays his direct attack until the penultimate chapter but throws down the gauntlet early. [Edward Said's] “Orientalism,†which indicts the entire field of Eastern studies as racist and imperialist, he characterizes in the introduction as “a work of malignant charlatanry.â€...'
