An Interview with Edward W. Said

Abstract

Said: Well, the closest parallel, I think, is with Orientalism, because I had actually thought of this book as a sequel to Orientalism. I started writing it almost immediately after was published and after the initial responses in the form of reviews, and so on, came in. At the time, I thought that what I wanted to do was to write something that would deal with some of the problems in Orientalism. In fact, I did write an essay called Orientalism Reconsidered, which I had originally thought of publishing as a kind of appendix to this book and which was in the nature of a response to