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Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication

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When Edward Said’s book, Orientalism, was published in 1978, it became an instant landmark of scholarship about the European imagination of “the East.” The construction of an alternate world of passion, sensuousness, despotism, and irrationality flattered Western sensibilities during the colonial period, and licensed brutality that otherwise might have seemed to run counter to the […]
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Literary Hub broke the news in on Thursday, May 22, 2025.
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