Type journalArticle Authors Markus Messling Publication title Forum for Modern Language Studies Issue 1 Volume 53 Pages 35-46 Language English Url https://academic.oup.com/fmls/article/53/1/35/2901797 DOI 10.1093/fmls/cqw084 Keywords (post)colonial Abstract ABSTRACT. Since Edward W. Said’s Orientalism, many polemics on the role of European philologies in cultural reflection have emerged. A point missed so far in t