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  • By: Edward Said
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  • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary

A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim (Orientalism).

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"Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, 'the pen is mightier than the sword.' This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the 'colonies'.... Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times." (Amazon.com review)
"Grandly conceived… urgently written and urgently needed…. No one studying the relations between the metropolitan West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work." ( The New York Times Book Review)

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Said: a most eminent thinker

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Said is one of those rare indispensable beings to have walked the earth. His early death is a great loss to our times.

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Croaking, droning, lilting, nasal narration

The content itself is fascinating, important and relevant but … the American author’s narration is robotic, buzzing, croaking, droning, lilting, and nasal, it’s insufferable especially over the nearly 20 hour duration. Add to this the attempts to sound erudite(?) when pronouncing foreign words which produces distractingly and irritatingly drawn out and affected gurgles and trills instead. (E.g. Bois du Bologne -Bwwahhdyuuuboollllllwahnayeeeh, Fakir - fahhhkyieerrrh, Camus - cyamyoooo)



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Difficult to understand and book is unnecessarily long

Perhaps I just don't the writing style so thought it was convoluted and unnecessarily long.

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You missed out Scotland!

Scotland is a colony and it’s a great shame the author did not recognise that fact in his otherwise excellent book.

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A great essay

Said is thorough, rigorous and honest. But, this book is more than a piece of scholarship; it is valuable because it makes one question narratives and depictions of literature and the media, which unfortunately have become dominant paradigms when dealing with other racial and religious groups.

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Outstanding.

Recommended on all counts. Brilliantly written, piercingly insightful, great narration. If you think you may have any interest at all then you should listen to this.

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