On Colonial Aphasia in the Study of German Orientalism

By Zubair Ahmad This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. Humanists have too often confined their attention to departmentalized topics of research. They have neither watched nor learned from disciplines like Orientalism whose unremitting ambition was to master all of a world, not some easily delimited part of it such as an author or a collection of texts. (Said 2003, 109) What could one possibly say about Edward Said’s Orientalism that has not already been utt..