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Bonus: The Deep History of Dune

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Orientalism in Herbert Herbert's Novels

Orientalism most broadly appears in popular fiction, cultural artifacts. It's usually the idea that the muslem other is romanticized or fetisized and treated as one monolithic entity. Herbert herbert's novels actually are a great cratigue of orientalism, because there isn't a clear boundary between east and west. And every novel ends with some kind of return to,. a like, buddhist, taist moslem, quilut tradition before colonialism.

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