The work of Edward Said has had a transformative effect on the way we think about identity and postcolonialism. In this book of essays, the contributors, informed by Said's wide-ranging scholarship, engage with post-coloniality, literature and philosophy. This is the first collection to expand and elucidate the work of Said and it matches his critical skill and insight over an interdisciplinary field of enquiry. Cultural Readings of Imperialism looks at: Josep Conrad, Frantz Fanon, George Elliot, Christopher Columbus, English ethnicity, Indian natioanlism, and women of empire.