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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. "Said is a brilliant . . . scholar, aesthete and political activist".--Washington... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Publicada originalmente en 1993, Cultura e imperialismo / Culture and Imperialism es una obra indispensable que restablece el di logo entre la literatura y la vida, y permite comprender uno de los procesos hist ricos y culturales m s complejos de la modernidad.

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