ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how Mohsen Makhmalbaf's creative imagination defies the critical condition of the post/colonial subject by breaking through its epistemic and narrative limitations. Some two hundred years into the active history of the field of Orientalism performing its discursive services as the principal intelligence arm of colonialism, Edward Said dismantled the nefarious edifice with one stroke of creative genius. With his magisterial achievement in Orientalism, Said ushered in a generation of critical inquiry into the discursive constitution of the colonial subject, and the manners in which that project remained integral to the imperial imagining of the globe. The principal objective in the challenge is to see how revolutionary re/subjection is creatively possible when people have been critically denied agency in a colonially militated modernity. The more serious challenge was that he, the critic, had assumed the position of a sovereign, knowing subject, which was at the epistemic root of the Enlightenment predicates of the colonial manufacturing of an Orient.
