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.

“Grandly conceived . . . urgently written and urgently needed. . . . No one studying the relations between the metropolitan West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said’s work.’ —The New York Times Book Review

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.

Review

Culture and Imperialism has an eloquent, urgent topicality rare in books by literary critics -- Camille Paglia

Readers accustomed to the precision and elegance of Edward Said's analytical prowess will not be disappointed by Culture and Imperialism. Those discovering Said for the first time will be profoundly impressed -- Toni Morrison

Edward Said helps us to understand who we are and what we must do if we are to aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power -- Noam Chomsky

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ RHUK (6 January 1994)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099967502

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099967507

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 kg 50 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 3.4 x 19.8 cm

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