Culture and Imperialism
内容简介
Synopsis
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 roots of imperialism in European culture.
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作者简介
Edward Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935. In 1951 he attended a private preparatory high school in Massachusetts, America and he went on to study at Princeton University for his BA and at Yale for his MA and PhD. He became University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia Unversity. Said was bestowed with numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world and twice received Columbia's Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. He is best known for describing and critiquing 'Orientalism' and his book on the subject was published in 1978. He died in 2003.
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读书文摘
我们接受的教育让我们敬仰我们的国家,尊重传统;要我们坚定地寻求国家和传统的利益,不管其他社会如何.一种新的、令人吃惊的部落思想正在损害和破坏社会、分裂人民、鼓动贪婪和血腥的冲突和张扬乏味的、关于少数民族或群体的特殊性.时间很少被花费在”了解别的文化“上,而是用来研究相互的往来,即国家社会和群体之间每日、甚至每分钟发生的时常是有成果的交流上.
文化与文化之间的界线已经成为一种全球共识，这种区分与区别不但令文化间的歧视成为可能，也使我们意识到文化在很大程度上是一种人为的建构。在一切由一国一族所定义的文化当中，都包含了对主权、教化、主导等意识的激发。所以尽管文化不免包含外来成分与各种不同面向，但它却常呈现单向的、单一的、自发的样貌。
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