Said’s model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle-Eastern studies-how academics examine, describe, and define the cultures being studied. Army veteran.Įducated in the Western canon, at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East his principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno.Īs a cultural critic, Said is known for the book Orientalism (1978), a critique of the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism-how the Western world perceives the Orient. A Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Edward Wadie Said was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.
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