Literary View Of Edward Said

The purpose of this paper is to explore the theories of Edward Said's literature; we can review culture and politics through literature, and learn about literature through culture or politics, so we can explore the anti-essentialist ideas about Literature and text which destructs on the concept of cultural anti-essentialism. Said's anti-essentialism has a profound implication: "anti" is a theoretical way, "anti" is not the purpose, but to construct a new concept which is different from the traditional literature. Said's anti-essentialist ideas about Literature and text mixes deconstruction and construction, time and space. Deconstruction is to challenge the traditional essentialist theories, questions any literary form which have a stable framework and a structure that can be confirmed; construction is to establish a unique perspective of literary criticism, gain a clear idea of an open literature. Said thinks that the traditional literary has gone to extreme, they pay homage to all the arbitrary imitation, for example, the opposite of our and their, the national and the word, and rise them to the status of essentialism, however, all of the geographic and historical experience is artificially constructed by people, which is uncertain, therefore, we should clean up the narrow literary frame and the putative context in the national literature. Said's anti-essentialism has done well in against the mode of thinking of the"essentialist"of literature , the rigid dichotomy ,with which the conception of the nature of literature founds on, corresponding ,in opposition to the nature of literature ,said has made efforts to construct a new map of literary theory.Said object the concept that thinks the nature of literature is aesthetic and pure. He proposes a literary principle that is"Secularization"and"worldliness". As to the secular literature, in fact, it is planted to explore the relevance of literature and history, emphasize the social context of literature, and give prominence to"worldliness"which means that the text, literature and culture are among the world, get involved with the rights, status and interests, so the literary is never pure. Considering those ideas, Said constructs the core of the anti-essentialist of literature which respectively includes three dimensions, from the historical, political and geographical.This article has five parts. The preface explains Said's contribution to literature with a brief introduction, the prototype status of the theory, also with the situation and the problems in researching his theories. The first part discusses the core of the anti-essentialism of the literature: In literature and history, Said against the attitude of reductionism and the textuality of the essentialism, so he advocates that the historical experience should return to the literature, while the literature should enrich the history by its diversity; In literature and politics, Said's anti-essentialism literature requires to remove the center and the totalitarianism ,promote the"worldliness"of the literature, and he has expanded the literature from the sight of the empire, so the relation of the literature and politics in particular with the Empire can be exposed; In the literature and geography, Said against the marginalization, and also the essentialist model with a linear and historical narrative, he welcomes to introduce the geography and the space, to discover the consciousness of the space which has been concealed, and reveals the ideology relationship between the literature and the space in the political stakes. The second part explores Said's social practical that is guided by literature, it stresses the repellence of his anti-essentialist literary view, and gives prominence to the power of the literature which can change the reality and liberate the society, and shows solicitude for the resistance to political and geographical literature. The third part discusses the reading method of the anti-essentialist in literature, trying to pay close attention to his anti-essentialist practice of explaining the text using the historicism and the mode of the philology. The fourth part of the formation tries to conceal how the theory happens. The fifth part explores the value and the significance of his Anti-essentialism literary view. The conclusion explains Said's cultural influences on Chinese Literature.