After Said : postcolonial literary studies in the 21st century / edited by Bashir Abu-Manneh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abu-Manneh, Bashir, 1972- editor.

Series:

After series (Cambridge University Press)

After series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W--Influence.

Said, Edward W.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Critical theory.

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Orientalism.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 221 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. This volume explores the problems and opportunities afforded by Said's work: its productive and generative capacities as well as its in-built limitations. After Said captures the essence of Said's intellectual and political contribution and his extensive impact on postcolonial studies. It examines his legacy by critically elaborating his core concepts and arguments. Among the issues it tackles are humanism, Orientalism, culture and imperialism, exile and the contrapuntal, realism and postcolonial modernism, world literature, Islamophobia, and capitalism and the political economy of empire. It is an excellent resource for students, graduates and instructors studying postcolonial literary theory and the works of Said."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Culture and Imperialism: Errors of a Syllabus / Seamus Deane

Exile as a Political Aesthetic / Keya Ganguly

Said and the "Worlding" of Nineteenth-Century Fiction / Lauren M. E. Goodlad

Said and Political Theory / Jeanne Morefield

Said, Postcolonial Studies and World Literature / Joe Cleary

Postcolonial and Transnational Modernism / Dougal McNeill

Political Predicaments of Exile / Joan Cocks

Orientalism Today / Saree Makdisi

Political Economy and the Iraq War: Said and Arrighi / Robert Spencer

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213) and index.

ISBN:

9781108429177

1108429173

9781108453219

110845321X

OCLC:

1050454399