Culture and Imperialism

Name: Culture and Imperialism
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By (author)Edward Said

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This book discusses the impact of imperialism on non-Western cultures and how Western perceptions of these cultures were shaped.

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In this book, Edward Said attempts to answer and complement the questions raised in his previous book, Orientalism. More importantly, he attempts to shed light on a new literature and criticism that emerged after colonialism, that is, after World War II. This brought to the fore the people of the Third World—Africans and Asians, Arabs and non-Arabs alike—who had always been the subject of Western anthropology and, in cultural texts, the negative evidence of various ideas about less developed, non-literary peoples whose essence remained unchanged despite history. These people became creators of their own literatures and histories, as well as critical readers of the Western archives. In light of this theory, Edward Said intelligently re-reads the production of Western thought over two hundred years, using analysis, intellectual sophistry, penetrating insight, and familiarity, like Camus’s notables. He interprets the essential components of Camus’s work within the framework of epistemological problems linked to Camus’s imperialist perspective, alongside his reading of Verdi and Jean Owen. Through his scholarly and analytical approach, he unmasks these giants of Western thought, exposing their hateful, condescending, and inhuman perspectives, steeped in racism, supremacy, and economic and racial exploitation.