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Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier
Henry Kissinger was an American diplomat of the 20th century. Edward Said offers Kissinger as an example of contemporary Orientalism, in which Orientalist discourse has become almost wholly subsumed by the political sciences and governmental organizations. Despite his long years of experience as a diplomat, Kissinger’s writing betrays the stamp of Orientalism in its assumptions about the difference between the West and a generalized and decontextualized Orient, its casual dismissal of the agency and power of Oriental subjects, and its need to establish the authority of its author and its author’s (Western) society.
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Chapter 1, Part 1
...cultural currency in the United States of the 1970s. An essay written by American diplomat Henry Kissinger neatly divides the world into “us” (Americans or Westerners) and “them” (the so-called Third World)....
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