Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد سعيد) (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003) was a well-known literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. According to Columbia News (Columbia University), he was "one of the most influential scholars in the world," and "was undoubtedly one of the greatest minds of the 20th century."
Said was born in Jerusalem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) and raised in both Jerusalem and Cairo, Egypt. Until age 12, he lived between Cairo and West Jerusalem where he attended the Anglican St. Georges Academy in 1947.
His family became refugees in 1948 just prior to the capture of West Jerusalem by Israeli forces.
At age 14, Said entered Victoria College in Cairo, and then Mount Hermon School in the United States. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963 and served as professor of English and Comparative Literature for several decades.
Said also taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale universities. He spoke English and French fluently, excellent colloquial and very good standard Arabic, and was literate in Spanish, German, Italian and Latin.
Said was bestowed 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.
Edward Said died at the age of 67 in New York after a long battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism"; what he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East.
In Orientalism (1978), Said decried the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture". [1] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for Europe's and America's colonial and imperial ambitions.
Critiquing Said, Christopher Hitchens, who writes for Vanity Fair, wrote that he denied any possibility "that direct Western engagement in the region is legitimate" and that Said's analysis cast "every instance of European curiosity about the East [as] part of a grand design to exploit and remake what Westerners saw as a passive, rich, but ultimately contemptible 'Oriental' sphere". [2]
The British historian Bernard Lewis is another important critic who took issue with Said's work. The two authors exchanged a famous polemic in the pages of the New York Review of Books following the publication of Orientalism. Lewis' article, "The question of orientalism" was followed in the next issue by "Orientalism: an exchange".
如题,关于东方主义很翔实系统的讲解。不过里面的东方仅包括埃及,中东之类的。尽管如此,还是很有代表性的,Orientalism的Textual Analysis都靠他了。。。
评分 评分如题,关于东方主义很翔实系统的讲解。不过里面的东方仅包括埃及,中东之类的。尽管如此,还是很有代表性的,Orientalism的Textual Analysis都靠他了。。。
评分作为一本后殖民主义的经典之作,《东方学》被反复地评论,有人赞颂有人贬抑,但其影响却依然强劲。凡是涉及到“外国人文学作品中的中国人或东方人形象”之类主题的论文,大多几乎都要引述《东方学》中的观点,却不去仔细考察萨义德的观点究竟是否适合自己的论题。 ...
最精彩的是开篇两句quote,intro也雄伟壮阔,再往后就有点车轱辘话来回讲。虽然借用福柯知识/权力的那套理论,但还是把这两者的关系处理得太简单清晰了。大概就是要这种“大刀向敌人的头上砍去”的气势,才会引起这么轰动的效果吧。
评分Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.
评分经典中不咋给力的一本。
评分比起orientalism 我现在倒是更担心self orientalism和reverse orientalism…
评分读了Introduction 。。刚开始直呼神奇,把我长久以来的一些想法一并道尽,读得酣畅淋漓好痛快!可是后面就开始越来越不对劲。。。
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