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Front Matter

Acclaim for Edward W. Said’s Culture and Imperialism

”Illuminating … consistently provocative … Mr. Said’s assessments of individual novels evince enormous erudition and a genuine passion for literature.”

—The New York Times

”Edward W. Said is a calm voice amid the din of the culture wars … a stimulating guide across the intellectual minefields of contemporary literary criticism.”

— Chicago Tribune

”A brilliant demonstration of a cultural criticism that matters. Lucid, learned and, in the deepest sense, humane, Culture and Imperialism is a major event in the discourse of the West — and the rest.”

—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

”Intuitive, passionate, and often impassioning … a revealing journey into the Heart of Whiteness.”

— Los Angeles Times Book Review

”In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said continues his unique and extremely important critical work. At a time when literary criticism has tended to become an esoteric game, Edward Said emphasizes its relation to the vast problems now facing the world as a whole, and argues with great force for the essential changes of attitude required of honest intellectuals.”

— Frank Kermode

”This is his magnum opus — a text that goes beyond his classic work Orientalism and takes us in and through the

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