“And yet, if you’re interested in understanding post-colonial sexual politics and possibly redressing soe of its injustices for a left-of-center politics, then my experience suggests that you might also, at some point or another, start reading in Orientalism a subordination theory of sexuality with a post-colonial kick, might start worrying that its prescriptive deployment on your poco-scholarship displays strikingly homologous dynamics to subordination feminism deployed elsewhere in domestic U.S. debates, and perhaps even sometimes, when you least expect it, you might develop a queer sense of discomfort with Orientalism as a strapping theoretical presence in your work— defining your descriptive engagements, guiding your normative assessments, and above all setting clear bars for the emancipatory aspirations of your discipline, your politics, and certainly the next article you’re about to write.
Yes, that is one sentence. It was written by my professor. I don’t know what it means.
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