Edward Said Quotes About Representation

Quotes about: Representation

• What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.

  Edward Said

  Rooms, Authority, Permit

• The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.

  Edward Said

  Europe, Orientalism, World

  "Orientalism". Book by Edward W. Said, 1978.

• But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.

  Edward Said

  Doe, Photograph, Lost

  Edward W. Said (2007). “The Edward Said Reader”, p.290, Vintage

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