Edward Said and the Writing of History by Shelley Walia

Edward Said and the Writing of History

Postmodern Encounters

Shelley Walia

80 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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Said famously argued in Orientalism that the West developed, at the peak of colonial expansion, a body of knowledge that imperialists could use to gain power. Walia investigates the need for alternative 'subaltern' histories and the influences - F...

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