Culture and Imperialism

Name: Culture and Imperialism
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ISBN: 9780679750543

ISBN-10: 0679750541

ISBN-13: 9780679750543

Edition: 1994

Authors: Edward W. Said

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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.

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/31/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction



Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories



Empire, Geography, and Culture



Images of the Past, Pure and Impure



The Visions in Heart of Darkness



Discrepant Experiences



Connecting Empire to Secular Interpretation



Consolidated Vision



Narrative and Social Space



Jane Austen and Empire



The Cultural Integrity of Empire



The Empire at Work: Verdi's Aida



The Pleasures of Imperialism



The Native Under Control



Camus and the French Imperial Experience



A Note on Modernism



Resistance and Opposition



There Are Two Sides



Themes of Resistance Culture



Yeats and Decolonization



The Voyage In and the Emergence of Opposition



Collaboration, Independence, and Liberation



Freedom from Domination in the Future



American Ascendancy: The Public Space at War



Challenging Orthodoxy and Authority



Movements and Migrations


Notes


Index