Paradoxical citizenship : Edward Said / edited by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia, 1953-

Said, Edward W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W.

Politics and literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

Edward Said (1935-2003) has been one of the most influential literary and social critics of the twentioth century. His writings extend over such topics as literature, philosophy, music, and political activism. His seminal works, such as Culture and Imperialism (1994), and especially Orientalism (1978), provide the foundations of postcolonial theory and have been used to critique and theorize on many disciplines.

This collection of articles, with a foreword by Gareth Griffiths, represents a theoretical critique of Said's work by eminent scholars around the world. At the same time, it is an homage to the late critic, showing the profound impact of his work on postcolonial and cultural studies in addition to contemporary literature and politics.

Contents:

Preface: Ultimate Coherence xiii

Introduction: The Word, the Text and Said / Gareth Griffiths xix

I Hegemony and the Role of the Intellectual 1

Knowledge, Power and Fear: Edward Said and the "Mainstreaming" of Postcolonial Literary Thought / Valerie Orlando 3

Said's Impact on Arab Intellectuals: Reverberations of Said's Thought in the Current Debates over Islam, and U.S.-Muslim/Arab Relations / Laura Rice, Karim Hamdy 15

The "Postcolonial" in Translation: Reading Said in Hebrew / Ella Shohat 25

Said's Foucault, or the Places of the Critic / John Ochoa 49

Textuality, Theory, (In)fusionism: Reinventing Said's "Materiality" & "Amateurism" / Ranjan Ghosh 57

Edward Said's "Counterpoint" / Kiyoko Magome 67

Territorial Ambition: Edward Said's Unmasking of the Intellectual's Complicity with State Expansion / Matthew Abraham 75

II Orientalism and its Dis/contents 83

Historiography as a Means for Power: "Otherization" and Imperialism Through the Writings of Edward Said / Rasha I. Ramzy 85

What Would Said Say? Reflections on Tradition, Imperialism, and Globalism / Sura P. Rath 95

"Jewelinthecrown.co.uk": Orientalism's Strange Persistence in British South Asian Writing / Steven Barfield 111

Latin American Orientalism: from Margin to Margin / Hernan G. H. Taboada 121

The Legacy and the Future of Orientalism / Lidan Lin 129

Occidentalism: Edward Said's Legacy for the Occidentalist Imaginary and its Critique / Tamara Silvia Wagner 145

III Narrating the Postcolonial 155

"Nation and Narration": The English Novel and Englishness / Sarah Fulford 157

Fish(ing) for Colonial Counter-Narratives in the Short Fiction of Paul Bowles / Robert Ficociello 167

Subject and Citizen: Ambivalent Identity in Postcolonial Cameroon / Gilbert Doho 175

Was Edward Said Right in Depicting Albert Camus as an Imperialist Writer? / Nabil Boudraa 187

IV The Last Sky over Broummana 201

Edward Said, John Berger, Jean Mohr: Seeking an Other Optic / John Hawley 203

After the Last Sky: A Liminal Space / Yifen Beus 211

Other Places: Said's Map of the Middle East / Salah D. Hassan 221

Books by Edward Said 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Books by Edward Said (1935-2003)": pages 229-232.

ISBN:

073910988X

OCLC:

63108355

Publisher Number:

9780739109885