Poscolonialismo edward said biography

Introduction

Edward Said (b.

1935–d. 2003) was an immensely influential literary and cultural critic and one of the world’s foremost public intellectuals. He is a founding figure of postcolonial studies owing to the extraordinary influence of his germinal critical study Orientalism (1978).

Poscolonialismo edward said biography book

Orientalism remains one of the most enduringly significant critical studies of the second half of the 20th century. Orientalism transformed the meaning of that term such that it no longer refers to a disinterested field of scholarship but an expression of power relations, a way of positioning the East as inferior to the West.

Many of Said’s major studies have made a major contribution to breaking down the assumption that the aesthetic is a realm of autonomous values by demonstrating literature’s complex affiliations with European colonialism and Wester