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Culture and Imperialism
by Edward W. Said
"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
"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
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.
This landmark book by the author of Orientalism draws dramatic connections between the imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it.
At the same time, Edward Said also examines the work 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.
Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was an internationally renowned literary and cultural critic, the author of more than 20 books, and University Professor at Columbia University.
Vintage
paperback
English
May 31, 1994
Reprint edition
380 pages
5.2 x 0.88 x 7.95 inches