Orientalism is everywhere

Leslie discusses postcolonial and decolonial theories to explain how imperalism and war on the "Middle East" are justified. Then, she discusses the her upbringing at the site of tension between being raised in an anti-imperialist household and her socialization in Canadian society in the early 2000s.

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References

Edward Said's Orientalism (1979): https://pages.pomona.edu/~vis04747/h124/readings/Said_Orientalism.pdf

Guayatri Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988): http://users.uoa.gr/~cdokou/TheoryCriticismTexts/Spivak-Subaltern.pdf

Amardeep Singh's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Plain English: an Explainer (2023): https://www.electrostani.com/2023/03/can-subaltern-speak-in-plain-englis...

Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007): https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1247/Terrorist-AssemblagesHomonat...

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