Edward Said's translocations : essays in secular criticism / edited by Tobias Döring and Mark Stein.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Döring, Tobias.

Stein, Mark, 1966-

Class of 1932 Fund.

Conference Name:

Edward Said Symposium: Locations, Readings, Legacies (2008 : Berlin, Germany)

Series:

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 39.

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Said, Edward W.

Secularism--Congresses.

Secularism.

Postcolonialism--Congresses.

Postcolonialism.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc--Congresses.

Literature, Modern.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Contents:

Introduction

Edward Said: opponent of postcolonial theory / Robert J. C. Young

Religion and dissent in Said's secular criticism / Gauri Viswanathan

The archeology of Said: Father Foucault, Dieu Derrida, and other (af)filiations / Chantal Zabus

A glorious achievement: Edward Said and the last Jewish intellectual / Bryan Cheyette

Re-reading Said in Arabic: (other)wordly counterpoints / Markus Schmitz

Edward Said and the practice of comparative literature / Ferial J. Ghazoul

Out of place or caught in the middle: Edward Said's thinking between humanism and poststructuralism / Rainer Emig

Overlapping territories-"exilic" readings: Edward Said and the emergence of critical empire analysis in American literary scholarship / Gesa Mackenthun

Orientalism, opera, and the public sphere / Christopher Balme

The art of counterpoint: music as site and tool in postcolonial readings / Alexander Honold

Picturing Palestine: Edward Said and the fiction of photography / Tobias Döring.

Notes:

Most papers in the collection were first presented at "The Edward Said Symposium: Locations, Readings, Legacies," which took place in September, 2008 at Lake Griebnitzsee, near Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0415886376

OCLC:

698324472

Publisher Number:

99948264976