Major influences of Edward Said are: Gramsci’s theory of Hegemony. Foucault’s theory of discourse and power.

1. Edward Said
(1935-2003)
History is written by those
who win and those who
dominate
By Zill-e Huma Mustafa Malik –for the course of Theories of Globalization
PhD student of Global Studies Department at Shanghai University, China

2. Background
Education and Work
• BA in 1957 at Princeton University, NJ,
• Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard, MA, in 1964.
• Taught in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at
Columbia
University, NY, from 1963-2003

3. Main Publications
• Orientalism (1978) .
• The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983).
• Culture and Imperialism (1993).
• Representations of the Intellectual (1996).
(They weren’t like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled.)
• Humanism and Democratic Criticism (2004)
(Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that is unlike all other empires, that its mission is
not to plunder & control but to educate and liberate.)

4. Major Critical Works:
1.Orientalism (1978)
• Major influences
• Gramsci’s theory of Hegemony.
• Foucault’s theory of discourse and power.
2. Culture and Imperialism(1993)

5. Orientalism
• Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QYrAqrpshw&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish

6. Said’s Glance on:
• Orientalism:
The term Orientalism in three interdependent
senses:
1) Orientalism as an academic field.
2) a style of thought based upon
distinctions made between “the Orient”
and “the Occident”.
3) A Western style for dominating,
restructuring, and having authority over
the Orient.”
• Cultural Imperialism:
The relationship between the imperial and
imperializes culture.
• Two major goals:
1. Mapping ‘the global pattern of imperial
culture’ and understanding how culture can
provide a moral drive for global domination
and oppression.
2. investigating the ‘historical global patterns
of resistance’ that emerged against Western
hegemony in the poorer countries

7. Thank You
Zill-e Huma Mustafa Malik