EDWARD SAID Y LA OTREDAD CULTURAL Translated title: EDWARD SAID AND CULTURAL OTHERNESS

Abstract

Edward Said (1935-2003) es autor de una vasta obra que trata sobre cultura, literatura, música y política. Este trabajo aborda específicamente el concepto de cultura que orientó sus estudios y la posición crítica frente a planteamientos enaltecedores de la diferencia y la otredad concebidas como distancia radical entre Oriente y Occidente. El análisis está centrado en sus libros más identificados con el pensamiento postcolonial, donde vincula abiertamente la cultura con las relaciones desiguales de poder, entramado conflictivo en el que también involucra a las disciplinas del conocimiento occidental, de ahí la importancia que se asigna a su debate con la antropología.

Translated abstract

Edward Said (1935-2003) has produced a vast work devoted to culture, literature, music and politics. This article approaches specifically the concept of culture that has guided Said in his studies as well as his critical opinion of views that extol difference and otherness, conceived as radical distance between West and East. This analysis is centered on his books most closely associated with postcolonial thought, where Said explicitly relates culture with unequal power relationships, a conflictive tangled web in which he exposes the involvement of the western disciplines, and therefore the importance assigned to his debate with anthropology.