Mira Nair's film version of Vanity Fair was dedicated to this man, a former neighbor.
Mira Nair's film version of Vanity Fair was dedicated to this man, a former neighbor. A Juilliard-educated pianist, he served as the classical music critic for The Nation and co-founded an orchestra with Daniel Barenboim; he also advanced a theory of "contrapuntal reading" and championed Cabral and Fanon in Culture and Imperialism. From 1963 until his death, he taught at Columbia, and his most well-known work addressed the role of the writings of de Sacy and Renand, as well as the adventure tales of Burton and Lawrence, in describing Europe's control and creation of non-Western culture. FTP, name the author of that landmark book Orientalism.
Mira Nair's film version of Vanity Fair was dedicated to this man, a former neighbor.
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