Task: Explanation
Input (English): Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, about the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism, defined as the West's patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. According to Said, orientalism (the Western scholarship about the Eastern World) is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power. Question:  The concept of imagined geographies originated from an author who defined them as the West's patronizing representations of what? Answer: The East
Output (English): Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, about the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism, defined as the Wests patronizing representations of The East—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.