Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World

by Ghosh, Ranjan

• ISBN13: 9780203879788
• ISBN10: 0203879783
• Copyright: 2009-04-20
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

The contributors to this volume - many among the foremost Edward Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic, his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers and his involvement with major movements of his time (such as music, feminism, new humanism, and Marxism).

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

"A Roomy Place Full of Possibility": Said's Orientalism and the Literary

Edward Said and Roland Barthes: Criticism versus Essayism. Or: Roads and Meetings Missed

Derrida and Said: Ships that Pass in the Night

Said .. Bloom .... Vico

The Materiality and Ideality of Text: Said and Ricoeur

"The Southern Question" and Said's Geographical Critical Consciousness

Fellow Travellers and Homeless Souls: Said's Critical Marxism

Edward Said and the Interplay of Music, History, and Ideology

Edward Said and (the Postcolonial Occlusion of) Gender

Reading Orientalism in Istanbul: Edward Said and Orhan Pamuk

On Late Style: Edward Said's Humanism

Autobiography and Exile: Edward Said's Out of Place

Edward Said, American International Policy and War on Terror

Representations of the Intellectual: the Historian as 'Outsider'

Contributors

Index

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