에드워드 사이드

소개

에드워드 사이드(Edward W. Said, 1935년 11월 1일~ 2003년 9월 24일)는 팔레스타인에서 태어난 미국의 영문학자·비교문학가·문학평론가·문명비판론자이다.

Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.