by Edward W. Said · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099967507
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«Culture and Imperialism» is Edward W. Said's essay on literary and cultural criticism, published by Vintage in paperback (444 pages, in English).
Edward W. Said analyzes how Western culture reflected and sustained imperialism, above all through the British and French novel, and how resistance and decolonization also marked that tradition. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, via Yeats and the Gulf War, he shows that imperial power is also exercised through narration.
The work was originally published in 1993; this Vintage edition includes a bibliography (pages 409-432) and an index.
For readers interested in literary criticism, cultural history and postcolonial studies.
Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.
