CRISIS IN ORIENTALISM
Edward Said
[ Lecture notes by S. Sreekumar for PG students]
[ Lecture notes by S. Sreekumar for PG students]
Edward Said—A Biographical Note
Edward Said
was a Palestinian born professor and scholar. A literary theorist and
academician, he wrote many books on literary criticism, musical criticism, and
issues of post-colonialism. He served as a professor of English and Comparative
Literature at Columbia University (former American President Barak Obama was
his student at Columbia University) in a teaching career that spanned four
decades. He served as Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard
College in 1974.He had a deep interest in politics and represented the
Palestinian National Council (PNC) as an independent member from 1977 to 1991.
