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According to postcolonial theory, how did Orientalist scholarship and representations help justify and legitimize colonial domination?
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- 1By portraying the Orient as backward, irrational and in need of Western civilisation✓
- 2Through portraying the Orient as outstanding, rational and in need of contemporary social reforms
- 3By presenting the East as forward, rational and in need of Eastern civilisation
- 4By commanding their literary works through new ideas which were taken as backward, outdated and in need of modern civilisation
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By portraying the Orient as backward, irrational and in need of Western civilisation
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