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- Title: Edward Said: Agent Provocateur (Orientalism) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Nebula
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,
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And this role [the intellectual's] has an edge to it, and cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them) to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug. Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual, p9 Were I to use one word consistently along with criticism, (not as a modification but as an emphatic) it would be oppositional. Edward Said, The World, the Text and the Critic, p29