Culture and Imperialism

by SAID, EDWARD W.

• ISBN13: 9780679750543
• ISBN10: 0679750541
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-31
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. "Said is a brilliant . . . scholar, aesthete and political activist."--Washington Post Book World.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories
Empire, Geography, and Culture	p. 3
Images of the Past, Pure and Impure	p. 15
The Visions in Heart of Darkness	p. 19
Discrepant Experiences	p. 31
Connecting Empire to Secular Interpretation	p. 43
Consolidated Vision
Narrative and Social Space	p. 62
Jane Austen and Empire	p. 80
The Cultural Integrity of Empire	p. 97
The Empire at Work: Verdi's Aida	p. 111
The Pleasures of Imperialism	p. 132
The Native Under Control	p. 162
Camus and the French Imperial Experience	p. 169
A Note on Modernism	p. 186
Resistance and Opposition
There Are Two Sides	p. 191
Themes of Resistance Culture	p. 209
Yeats and Decolonization	p. 220
The Voyage In and the Emergence of Opposition	p. 239
Collaboration, Independence, and Liberation	p. 262
Freedom from Domination in the Future
American Ascendancy: The Public Space at War	p. 232
Challenging Orthodoxy and Authority	p. 303
Movements and Migrations	p. 326
Notes	p. 337
Index	p. 363
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