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Counterpoints : Edward Said's legacy / edited by May Telmissany and Stephanie Tara Schwartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Said, Edward W.
- Palestinian Americans--Biography.
- Palestinian Americans.
- Critics--United States--Biography.
- Critics.
- Intellectuals--United States--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Politics and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Revolving around the theme of "counterpoint" extensively used by Edward Said as the interplay of diverse ideas and discrepant experiences, this book aims to explore Said's contribution to the fields of comparative literature, literary criticism, postcolonial theory, exilic and transnational studies, and socio-political thought among many others. Overshadowed by his legitimate political positions in support to the Palestinian cause and at odds Other Islamophobic hostilities, Said's intellectual...
- Contents:
- Preface. Edward Said and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra / Mariam Said
- Introduction. Contrapuntal perspectives / May Telmissany and Stephanie Tara Schwartz
- Part I. Said in theory
- Edward Said's humanism / Bill Ashcroft
- Reading between the lines : resituating Said's contrapuntalism in music / Cameron Fae Bushnell
- On the margins of Middle Eastern studies : situating Said's Orientalism / Ella Shohat
- Edward Said's incomplete discursive constructivism / Stefan Hoffmann
- Edward Said and the politics of subjectivity / Prasad Pannian
- Part II. Exile : themes and variations
- Edward Said : writing in exile / Mark Muhannad Ayyash
- The exilic imagination : literary and existential trajectories of the outside / Jason Mohaghegh
- Inside-outside : Edward Said's Caribbean and dilemmas in contrapuntalism / David Austin
- Part III. Post-colonialism : melodic and dissonant lines
- Said amongst the Carrribeans : The invisible "unity in diversity" and "diversity in unity" (Cesaire, Fanon, Naipaul) / Kathleen Gyssels
- The other's dishes : contrapuntal histories, invented cuisines, inauthentic ingredients / Irina D. Mihalache
- Techno-Orientalism in East-Asian contexts : reiteration, diversification, adaptation / Artur Lozano-Mendez
- Part IV. The world, the text and the academy
- Representations of the other : reading Orientalism through phenomenology / Bernhard Leistle
- Essentialist stereotypes in textbooks on Hispanic studies / Ali Shehzad Zaidi
- Teaching Said : culture discourse meets culture critique / Carl Davila.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-69238-0
- 9786612692383
- 1-4438-2092-X
- OCLC:
- 668397186
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