Long Live Edward Said?
[Original Dutch article published on Sep 30, 2003; English version is due to google translate and some minor changes] Edward Said is dead. Last Wednesday he lost his battle with…
Read moreComparing India and the West—S.N. Balagangadhara
[Original, published in ASIANetwork Exchange XVI (1): 57–63.] During the last two decades, I have been pursuing an unorthodox way of studying cultural differences, focusing mainly on the Indian and the western…
Read moreThe Future of the Present. Thinking Through Orientalism—S.N.Balagangadhara
[Appeared in Cultural Dynamics July 1998 10: 101-121] Though the book was published nearly two decades ago, Said’s Orientalism continues to be topical. Many have rejected the message of this work; others have attempted…
Read moreIs the division between the West and East Orientalist in nature?
Is the division between the West and East Orientalist in nature? Well, that is what Edward Said says in his Orientalism; that is what many writers in his wake say…
Read moreVacuity of Essentialism?—S.N.Balagangadhara
[For more on the postcolonial diet called ‘essentialism’, check this paper] I have had difficulties in understanding the use and meaning of some words, especially ‘essentialism’ and its cognates. Here…
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