According to text I, decide whether the following statements...

De acordo com o texto I, decida se a declaração seguinte está certa (C) ou errada (E).

A noção de orientalismo, que o autor pretende investigar, é construída em cima de um volume de textos escritos através dos séculos. 

O último parágrafo do texto diz o seguinte:
"From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of World War II, France and Britain dominated the Orient and Orientalism; since World War II America has dominated the Orient, and approaches it as France and Britain once did. Out of that closeness, whose dynamic is enormously productive even if it always demonstrates the comparatively greater strength of the Occident (British, French, or American), comes the large body of texts I call Orientalist." (Desde o início do século 19 até o final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, França e Grã-Bretanha dominaram o Oriente e o Orientalismo; desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial a América dominou o Oriente e aproxima-se como a França e Grã-Bretanha já fizeram uma vez. Dessa proximidade, cuja dinâmica é enormemente produtiva mesmo que sempre demonstre a força comparativamente maior do Ocidente (britânica, francesa, ou americana), vem o vasto conjunto de textos que eu chamo de Orientalista.)

Gabarito: CERTO.

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Orientalism expresses and represents that part culturally and even ideolofically as a mode of discourse with supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship, imagery, doctrines, even colonials bureaucracies and colonial styles.

.... throughout the centuries. Não extrapola o texo?

Line 4: "The Orient of Chateaubriant and Nerval" escritores de outros séculos.

"From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of World War II, France and Britain dominated the Orient and Orientalism; since World War II America has dominated the Orient, and approaches it as France and Britain once did. Out of that closeness, whose dynamic is enormously productive even if it always demonstrates the comparatively greater strength of the Occident (British, French, or American), comes the large body of texts I call Orientalist."

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To speak of Orientalism therefore is to speak mainly, although not exclusively, of a British and French cultural enterprise, a project whose dimensions take in such disparate realms as the imagination itself, the whole of India and the Levant, the spice trade, colonial armies and a long tradition of colonial administrators, a formidable scholarly corpus, innumerable Oriental “experts” and “hands”, an Oriental professorate, many Eastern sects, philosophies, and wisdoms domesticated for local European use — the list can be extended more or less indefinitely.