Culture and ImperialismA 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. 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. |
Contents
Empire Geography and Culture | 3 |
Images of the Past Pure and Impure | 15 |
Discrepant Experiences | 31 |
Connecting Empire to Secular Interpretation | 43 |
CHAPTER | 62 |
Jane Austen and Empire | 80 |
The Cultural Integrity of Empire | 97 |
Verdis Aida | 111 |
Themes of Resistance Culture | 209 |
Yeats and Decolonization | 220 |
The Voyage In and the Emergence of Opposition | 239 |
Collaboration Independence and Liberation | 262 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 282 |
Challenging Orthodoxy and Authority | 303 |
Movements and Migrations | 326 |
Notes | 337 |
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