Using "Western" as shorthand for "good" harks of a cultural imperialism which doesn't recognise that the picture may be more mixed than at first appears. We can't deny there is a stronger ...

Review of Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) Professor Said says that his aim is to set works of art of the imperialist and post-colonial eras into their ...

To put it differently, this universalizing, materialist, Eurocentric narrative is what holds together even seemingly “antithetical attitudes as ideologies of Western imperialism” as well as ...