Culture and Imperialism by Said, Edward W.

Culture and Imperialism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679750543)

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Culture and Imperialism by Said, Edward W.

Culture and Imperialism

$19.00
Culture and Imperialism by Said, Edward W.

Culture and Imperialism

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Author: Edward W. Said
ISBN-10: 0679750541
ISBN-13: 9780679750543
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/31/1994
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.18w x 0.95d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/02/1994
Publishers Weekly 05/08/1995
By Edward W. Said
By Edward W. Said
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Edward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2003 in New York City.

He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into 35 languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process (1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). Besides his academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and was the music critic for The Nation.

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