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Rushdie “has managed and succeeded over the decades to subvert expectations of orientalization by publishers, critics and readers, often through strategic, consciously articulated self-orientalization,” Mendes said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023

The Tuscan-born Puccini’s themes of exoticism and orientalization will be repurposed by a composer born in the Chinese province of Hainan.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2019

Dizzy’s orientalization of Queen Victoria into an Empress angered him, as it angered many more. 

From Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake by Tuckwell, William

The style may be said to have arisen from the orientalization of Roman art, and itself largely contributed to the formation of the Saracenic or Mahommedan styles.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various