Acteur

Edward Said

Autres noms: Edward Wadie Saïd, إدوارد وديع سعيد, Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd

Date de naissance

1 novembre 1935

Date de décès

24 septembre 2003

(décédé à 67 ans)

Lieu de naissance

Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine

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Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.