Culture and Imperialism

Edward W. Said

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Random House Inc
01 May 1994

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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.

""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.

By: Edward W. Said
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780679750543
ISBN 10: 0679750541
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 May 1994
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Culture and Imperialism

In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said's immense erudition and interpretive audacity are brought to bear on a variety of literatures, reanimating the terms of his title and discovering, in the process, how some of the most revered cultural productions call upon the same energies that go into the building of empires. His new book will likely become a classic of contemporary criticism. --Richard Poirier