Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Chapters: Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Tjalie Robinson, A land without a people for a people without a land, Paulo Freire, Human zoo, Yehouda Shenhav, Post-colonial anarchism, Ethnicity of performers in pornography, Jeff Wassmann, E. San Juan, Jr., Négritude, Subaltern, Robert J. C. Young, Homi K. Bhabha, Stranger King, Noha Radwan, Postcolonial feminism, Theory of Subversion and Containment, M.T. Mehdi, Hisham Sharabi, Harry Thuku, Anibal Quijano, Achille Mbembe, Larbi Sadiki, Inversion in postcolonial theory, Molara Ogundipe, Leela Gandhi, Gatekeeper state, Imagined geographies, Postcolonialism and international relations theory, Duro Ladipo, Tabish Khair, Créolité, The Blacks, Congress of Black Writers and Artists, The Colonizer and the Colonized, Precolonialism, Octave Mannoni, Strategic essentialism, Dual consciousness, Neo-orientalism. Excerpt: Edward Wadie Saïd (Arabic pronunciation: Arabic: ,; 1 November 1935 - 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism. Robert Fisk described him as the Palestinians' "most powerful political voice." Said was an influential cultural critic and author, known best for his book Orientalism (1978), which catapulted him to international academic fame. The book presented his influential ideas on Orientalism, the Western study of Eastern cultures. Said contended that Orientalist scholarship was and continues to be inextricably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it, making much of the work inherently politicized, servile to power, and therefore suspect. Grounding much of this thesis in his intimate knowledge of colonial literature such as the fiction of Conrad, and in the post-structuralist theory of Foucault, Derrida and others, Said's Orientalism and following works proved influential in literary theory and criticism, and continue to influence several other fields in the humanities. Orientalism affected Middle Eastern studies in particular, transforming the way practitioners of the discipline describe and examine the Middle East. Said came to discuss and vigorously debate the issue of Orientalism with scholars in the fields of history and area studies, many of whom disagreed with his thesis, including most famously Bernard Lewis. Said also came to be known as a public intellectual who frequently discussed contemporary politics, music, culture, and literature, in lectures, newspaper and magazine columns, and books. Drawing on his own experience as a Palestinian growing up in a Palestinian Christian family in the Middle East at the time of the creation of Israel, Said argued for the creation of a Palestinian state, equal rights for Palestinians in Israel, including the right of re

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