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Key ideas from the book
- It examines how European literature helped express and organize ideas of imperialism.
- It studies the relationship between British and French novels and expanding colonial societies.
- It considers how resistance to empire and decolonization influenced literary culture.
- It highlights the power of narrative to shape perceptions of rulers, ruled peoples, and empire.
- It connects literary criticism with the history and theory of European colonialism.
About Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said
Published in 1993, Culture and Imperialism examines the relationship between European literature and the practices, ideas, and attitudes of empire. Edward W. Said focuses especially on British and French writing, with attention to major nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors such as Jane Austen and Rudyard Kipling.
Through a series of essays, Said considers how imperialism shaped the English and French novel, and how resistance and decolonization influenced literary culture in return. His discussion of Robinson Crusoe introduces the novel as a revealing cultural form: one connected to the expanding societies of Britain and France and to ideas of European authority beyond Europe.
A central concern is the power of culture to establish, preserve, or suppress narratives about empire. The book will interest readers of literary history, postcolonial studies, European literature, cultural criticism, and the political history of colonialism.
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