(P/B) CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM

Παρουσίαση

Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to 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. (From the publisher)

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Introduction
- Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories
Empire, Geography, and Culture
Images of the Past, Pure and Impure
Two 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