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Eta kniga — prodolzheniye razmyshleniy, nachatykh Edvardom Saidom v «Oriyentalizme», yego klassicheskom trude. Yesli v tsentre vnimaniya «Oriyentalizma» — svyaz' mezhdu filologicheskimi issledovaniyami i formirovaniyem khudozhestvennogo obraza Vostoka, a takzhe kontrol' yevropeyskikh imperiy nad stranami Azii i Afriki, to «Kul'tura i imperializm» rasshiryayet geografiyu issledovatelya, no vmeste s tem i konkretiziruyet yego fokus. Said otslezhivayet, kak obrazy vlasti, imperskogo prostranstva i zhiteley koloniy perepletayutsya na stranitsakh proizvedeniy takikh avtorov, kak Dzheyn Ostin, Dzhozef Konrad, Red'yard Kipling, Daniyel' Defo, Charl'z Dikkens, Fransua Shatobrian, a takzhe v opere «Aida» Dzhuzeppe Verdi. Vtoraya klyuchevaya tema etoy knigi — natsionalizm i strategii soprotivleniya dominirovaniyu yevropeytsev, put' k kotorym Said provodit cherez analiz irlandskoy literatury. Dannaya rabota, vyyavlyaya podchas nezametnyye detali i svyazi, podstegivayet chitatelya po-novomu proanalizirovat' uzhe izvestnyye yemu proizvedeniya