Edward Said : a legacy of emancipation and representation / edited by Adel Iskandar and Hakem Rustom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iskander, Adel.

Rustom, Hakem.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W.

Orientalism.

Imperialism.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 548 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the most comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said's life and work, spans his broad legacy both within and beyond the academy. The book brings together contributions from thirty-one luminaries-leading scholars, critics, writers, and activists-to engage Said's provocative ideas. Their essays and interviews explore the key themes of emancipation and representation through the prisms of postcolonial theory, literature, music, philosophy, and cultural studies.Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Ben Conisbee Baer, Daniel Barenboim, Timothy Brennan, Noam Chomsky, Denise DeCaires-Narain, Nicholas Dirks, Marc H. Ellis, Rokus de Groot, Sabry Hafez, Abdirahman A. Hussein, Ardi Imseis, Adel Iskandar, Ghada Karmi, Katherine Callen King, Joseph Massad, W. J. T. Mitchell, Laura Nader, Ilan Pappe, Benita Parry, Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Jahan Ramazani, Jacqueline Rose, Lecia Rosenthal, Hakem Rustom, Avi Shlaim, Ella Habiba Shohat, Robert Spencer, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Asha Varadharajan, Michael Wood

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction Emancipation and Representation

1. Affiliating with Edward Said

2. Edward Said Remembered on September 11, 2004: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

3. Beginnings Again

4. Side by Side: The Other Is Not Mute

5. Edward Said and Anthropology

6. The Critic and the Public

7. Affiliating Edward Said Closer to Home: Reading Postcolonial Women's Texts

8. Translating Heroism: Locating Edward Said on Ahdaf Soueif 's The Map of Love

9. Edward Said and the Poetry of Decolonization

10. Edward Said in Contemporary Arabic Culture

11. "Long, Languorous, Repetitious Line": Edward Said's Critique of Arab Popular Culture

12. Edward Said and Polyphony

13. The Arab/Jewish Counterpoint: An Interview with Daniel Barenboim

14. Speaking Truth to Power: On Edward Said and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle

15. Edward Said and the Palestine Question

16. Representation and Liberation: From Orientalism to the Palestinian Crisis

17. Said and the Palestinian Diaspora: A Personal Reflection

18. The Question of Zionism: Continuing the Dialogue

19. Edward Said's Impact on Post-Zionist Critique in Israel

20. The "Postcolonial" in Translation Reading Said in Hebrew

21. ExileWith/OutGod: A Jewish Commentary inMemory of Edward Said

22. The Incalculable Loss: Conversations with Noam Chomsky

23. "Contented Homeland Peace": The Motif of Exile in Edward Said

24. A New "Copernican" Revolution: Said's Critique of Metaphysics and Theology

25. Edward Said and the Possibilities of Humanism

26. The Language of the Unrequited: Memory, Aspiration, and Antagonism in theUtopian Imagination of Edward Said

27. Between Humanism and Late Style

28. Secular Divination: Edward Said's Humanism

29. Countercurrents and Tensions in Said's Critical Practice

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612697647

9781282697645

1282697641

9780520945401

0520945409

OCLC:

680277594