One of the key examples analysed in Edward Said’s Orientalism is Flaubert’s account his meeting with almeh Kuchiuk Hanem, a skilled dancer and courtesan, Egypt 1850. Frequently revisited by criticism following Said, has had an extraordinary afterlife which she seen as standing for Orient whole, instance synecdoche. We, postcolonial theorists, tend to interpret Kuchiuk-as-text (Flaubert’s notes ...

Tim Brennan’s recent biography of Edward Said entitled Places Mind: A life (2022) is a tribute to critic, musician, activist and humanist world caliber whose work continue inspire millions readers. This review takes look at scholarly methodology in mapping Said’s work, but also highlights the various domains which intellectual excelled. The further calls attention intersection between literatur...

For many historians the term “colonial science” implicitly refers to any scientific knowledge produced in the colonies, usually by professionals trained in the metropole. Other historians eager to “provincialize Europe” have highlighted the role that colonial administrators played in creating new forms of scientific knowledge, which then returned to Europe; still other scholars have explored ho...