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Culture and Imperialism » (1st Vintage Books Edition)

Book cover image of Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said

Authors: Edward W. Said
ISBN-13: 9780679750543, ISBN-10: 0679750541
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: May 1994
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Edition

Author Biography: Edward W. Said

Book Synopsis

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.

Publishers Weekly

In 37 essays, Columbia professor and long-time Palestinian National Council advisor Said offers 37 essays on the political destiny of Palestine; Western stereotypes of Islam; U.S. Middle East policy; and Palestinian-Israeli relations. (June)

	Introduction
Ch. 1	Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories
I	Empire, Geography, and Culture	3
II	Images of the Past, Pure and Impure	15
III	The Visions in Heart of Darkness	19
IV	Discrepant Experiences	31
V	Connecting Empire to Secular Interpretation	43
Ch. 2	Consolidated Vision
I	Narrative and Social Space	62
II	Jane Austen and Empire	80
III	The Cultural Integrity of Empire	97
IV	The Empire at Work: Verdi's Aida	111
V	The Pleasures of Imperialism	132
VI	The Native Under Control	162
VII	Camus and the French Imperial Experience	169
VIII	A Note on Modernism	186
Ch. 3	Resistance and Opposition
I	There Are Two Sides	191
II	Themes of Resistance Culture	209
III	Yeats and Decolonization	220
IV	The Voyage In and the Emergence of Opposition	239
V	Collaboration, Independence, and Liberation	262
Ch. 4	Freedom from Domination in the Future
I	American Ascendancy: The Public Space at War	232
II	Challenging Orthodoxy and Authority	303
III	Movements and Migrations	326
	Notes	337
	Index	363