Edward Said's examination of how Western scholarship, literature and administration constructed an idea of the East remains one of the most argued-over works of twentieth-century criticism. This Penguin paperback carries the full text.
The study traces a body of writing about the Orient produced in Europe and later America, and asks what that writing did as well as what it claimed. Said reads travel accounts, philology, fiction and policy documents together, treating them as a single discourse with its own conventions and authority. The argument has shaped postcolonial studies, anthropology, history and literary theory since publication, and reading it first-hand is still the only way to see how the case is actually built.
Highlights of this edition:
• The complete text in a Penguin paperback
• Close reading of European writing about the East
• A founding work of postcolonial criticism
• Arguments that cut across literature, history and politics
Central for students of literature, history and politics and for general readers following debates about representation, published by Penguin and available at Boipoka.
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