Life
Author of Culture and Imperialism (London: Chatto & Windus;
NY: Knopf, 1993); lectured at Yeats summer School (Sligo) in the early
eighties at the invitation of Declan Kiberd.
[For extracts, see under Archives/Research Resources/Authors/Said, Edward.]
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Notes
Edna Longley, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism
in Ireland, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1994, p.30; [on criticisms
of his version of the similitude of Ireland and the Carribbean countries];
‘the land of saints, scholars, missionaries and imperial civil servants
seems to have gone float about’.
Julian Moynahan, Anglo-Irish (1995): ‘He assumes that colonials, exccept for rare individuals, are everlasting tools of the owner that sent them over to occupy, settle, and dominate. I assume that an elite colony gets cut off from its extraterritorial roots, becoming as Irish as everybody else, though the cultural contribution it makes remains distinctive as long as there are enough self-identified Anglo-Irish people on Irish ground to constitute a “critical mass”.’ (p.xi.); further calls Said’s decision to characterised Ireland as an ‘sort of honorary third-world territory’ as a serious miscalculation ‘in his otherwise magesterial of the imperial and cultural incursions’ of white European nineteenth and twentieth century powers. On the “non-European world”. (Bibl., Culture and Imperialism, xii; Yeats and Decolonisation, [?Deane ed.] p.75.)
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