| Edition |
1st Vintage books edition. |
| Description |
xxviii, 380 pages ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1993. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-361) and index. |
| Contents |
I: 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 -- II: 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 -- III: 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 -- IV: Freedom from domination in the future -- American ascendancy: the public space at war -- Challenging orthodoxy and authority -- Movements and migrations. |
| Summary |
A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. |
| Subject |
European literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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Politics and culture.
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Colonies in literature. (OCoLC)fst00868477
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Imperialism in literature. (OCoLC)fst00968142
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Literature -- Theory, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01353577
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Politics and culture. (OCoLC)fst01069952
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Translated As: |
Culture and imperialism. Arabic. Thaqfah wa-al-imbirylyah. (OCoLC)37698318 |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Said, Edward W. Culture and imperialism. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1994 (OCoLC)605400120 |
| ISBN |
0679750541 (pbk.) |
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9780679750543 (pbk.) |
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