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"El Oriente" by Jorge Luis Borges: a poetic bouquet and emblem of the east.
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The Romanic Review
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March 1, 2007
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In the system of knowledge about the Orient, the Orient is less a place than a topos, a set of references, a congeries of characteristics, that seems to have its origin in a quotation, or a fragment of a text, or a citation from someone's work on the Orient, or some bit of previous imagining, or an amalgam of all these (Edward Said, Orientalism, Chapter 2, Part IV).
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A noteworthy feature of recent scholarship devoted to the work of Jorge Luis Borges has been an interest in the connection between his prose writings (mainly), and the subjects of the Orient and Orientalism. In 1991 Julia Kushigian blazed a significant trail in the field with her book, ...
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