Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism

Matthew Whittle (University of Kent at Canterbury)

Ed. by Anna Bernard, King's College London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.4: Arab Diasporic Literature and Culture (Anglophone/ Francophone/ Other), 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Anna Bernard (King's College London), Joseph Farag (University of Minnesota), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1993

Places

Palestine (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Commentary / Criticism (literary)
- Essay Collection

Resources

Culture and Imperialism (1993) acts as a “sort of a sequel” (64) to Edward Said’s seminal 1978 work Orientalism. Where the latter focused on how the production of Western knowledge about North African and Middle Eastern regions operated as a means of “dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient” (1978: 3), Culture and Imperialism represents Said’s attempt to “describe a more general pattern of relationships between the modern metropolitan West and its overseas territories” (xi). Of particular concern is the relationship between culture and imperialism during the height of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western empires and what Said refers to as the “interdependence of …

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Citation: Whittle, Matthew. "Culture and Imperialism". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 April 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14564, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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