Edward Said and the Writing of History by Shelley Walia

Postmodern Encounters

Edward Said and the Writing of History

Shelley Walia

80 pages 1997

1 edition

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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Said famously argued in Orientalism that the West developed, at the peak of colonial expansion, a body of knowledge that imperialists could use to gain power. Walia investigates the need for alternative 'subaltern' histories and the influences - F...

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