Edward Said
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| Born |
Edward Wadie Said 1 November 1935 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | 25 September 2003 (aged 67) New York City, United States |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Spouse(s) | Mariam C. Said |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Postcolonialism, postmodernism |
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Notable ideas
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Occidentalism, Orientalism, the Other |
Edward Wadie Said (Arabic pronunciation: [wædiːʕ sæʕiːd] Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد, Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies. A Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, Wadie Saïd, a U.S. Army veteran of the First World War (1914–18).
Educated 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.
As 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. 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. As a foundational text, Orientalism was controversial among the scholars of Oriental Studies, philosophy, and literature.
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