 | Fawzia Afzal-Khan - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 212 pages
...experiences" at the heart both of Imperialism and decolonization. "The power to narrate," claims Said, "or to block other narratives from forming and emerging,...and constitutes one of the main connections between them" (xiii). It is precisely to counter the narratives of cultural imperialism, I argue, that colonized... | |
 | Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott - History - 1994 - 484 pages
...cultural legacy of the Soviet era. In the words of a Western scholar, "nations themselves are narrations. The power to narrate, or to block other narratives...and constitutes one of the main connections between them."9 For independent-minded intellectuals in the new states, the challenge is not whether to reject... | |
 | Ed Marum - Education - 1995 - 252 pages
...sanctioned, authorized versions coming through the prevailing discourse. Edward Said (1993) has written that, The power to narrate, or to block other narratives...and constitutes one of the main connections between them. (p. xiii) And goes on to say that, centrality gives rise to semi-official narratives that authorize... | |
 | Kostas Myrsiades, Jerry McGuire - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 428 pages
...this volume. 4. In his introduction to Culture and Imperialism, Said writes, The power to narrate and to block other narratives from forming and emerging...imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections among them" (xiii). Concern for control over the voice is evident among many of the authors most frequently... | |
 | Douglas C. Comer - History - 1996 - 340 pages
...(New York: Vintage Books, 1993), in which he presents a "nation" as a kind of discourse, or narration: "The power to narrate, or to block other narratives...and constitutes one of the main connections between them" (p. xiii). 41. Quoted in David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell... | |
 | Michael J. Shapiro - 260 pages
...of systems of discursive control, locating the violence of imperialism in the control over stories: "The power to narrate, or to block other narratives...and constitutes one of the main connections between them."9 Indeed, contemporary neoimperialism resides in part in the dominance of a spatial story that... | |
 | Lisa Moore - History - 1997 - 208 pages
...now plans its future — these issues were reflected, contested, and for a time decided in narrative The power to narrate, or to block other narratives...and constitutes one of the main connections between them."48 The importance of colonialism to understanding the novel is true not only of novels containing... | |
 | W. T. Lhamon - Music - 1998 - 302 pages
...is Edward Said's term, coined in Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993). 39. Edward Said: "The power to narrate, or to block other narratives...and constitutes one of the main connections between them." Ibid., p. xiii. 40. C. Vann Woodward reports in The Strange Career of Jim Crow that the term... | |
 | Chaim David Mazoff - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 192 pages
...its future - these issues were reflected, contested, and even for a time decided in narrative . . . The power to narrate, or to block other narratives...and constitutes one of the main connections between them."23 Said's comments, although written about the novel, are most certainly not restricted to that... | |
 | David Ryan - United States - 2000 - 640 pages
...a respect and subservience. They act as filters through which complex information can be processed. 'The power to narrate. or to block other narratives...and constitutes one of the main connections between them.'?? The stories told and not told provide the foundations of national meaning. Understanding and... | |
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The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections between them. 
