Edward Said
Palestinian-American · 1935–2003
Palestinian-American literary theorist and public intellectual whose "Orientalism" reshaped postcolonial studies and cultural criticism.
Wikipedia ↗“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others.”
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Culture and Imperialism ↗ (1993)
“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points.”
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Culture and Imperialism ↗ (1993)
“The intellectual's role is to speak the truth to power.”
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“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.”
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Reflections on Exile ↗ (2000)