“Culture and Imperialism” Summary of the Book
Following his profoundly influential study on Orientalism, Edward Said examines Western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to the media coverage of the Gulf War, Culture and Imperialism is a broad, fierce and wonderfully readable account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.
‘Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete and political activist, an inspiring role model for a younger generation of critics seeking their cultural identity… Culture and Imperialism has an eloquent, urgent topicality rare in books
by literary critics’
-CAMILLE PAGLIA
