Edward Said

by Iskandar, Adel

• ISBN13: 9780520258907
• ISBN10: 0520258908
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-30
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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 bookOrientalism,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. A deeply humanistic work, the book offers a nuanced and meditative examination of many controversial issues that are as fiercely debated today as they were during Said's life--from imperialism, Zionism, and the Palestinian-Israeli impasse to exile, secularity, and role of the intellectual. 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

Author Biography

Adel Iskandar is a Lecturer at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. He is the author of Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network That is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism. Hakem Rustom is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Emancipation and Representation	p. 1
Affiliating with Edward Said	p. 23
On Colony and Aesthetics
Edward Said Remembered on September 11, 2004: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	p. 53
Beginnings Again	p. 60
Side by Side: The other is not Mute	p. 72
Edward Said and Anthroplogy	p. 86
The Critic and the Public: Edward Said and World Literature	p. 102
Affiliating Edward Said Closer to Home: Reading Postcolonial Women's Texts	p. 121
Translating Heroism: Locating Edward Said on Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love	p. 142
Edward Said and the Poetry of Decolonization	p. 159
Edward Said in Contemporary Arabic Culture	p. 170
ôLong, Languorous, Repetitious Lineö: Edward Said's Critique of Arab Popular Culture	p. 191
Edward Said and Polyphony	p. 204
Palestine, Israel, and Zionism
The Arab/Jewish Counterpoint: An Interview with Daniel Barenboim	p. 229
Speaking Truth to Power: On Edward Said and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle	p. 247
Edward Said and the Palestine Question	p. 280
Representation and Liberation: From Orientalism to the Palestinian Crisis	p. 291
Said and the Palestinian Diaspora: A Personal Reflection	p. 304
The Question of Zionism: Continuing the Dialogue	p. 314
Edward Said's Impact on Post-Zionism Critique in Israel	p. 321
The ôPostcolonialö in Translation: Reading Said in Hebrew	p. 333
Exile With/Out God: A Jewish Commentary in Memory of Edward Said	p. 354
The Intellectual at a Crossroads
The Incalculable Loss: Conversations with Noam Chomsky	p. 369
ôContented Homeland Peaceö: The Motif of Exile in Edward Said	p. 389
A New ôCopernicanö Revolution: Said's Critique of Metaphysics and Theology	p. 414
Edward Said and the Possibilities of Humanism	p. 431
The Language of the Unrequited: Memory, Aspiration, and Antagonism in the Utopian Imagination of Edward Said	p. 448
Between Humanism and Late Style	p. 462
Secular Divination: Edward Said's Humanism	p. 490
Countercurrents and Tensions in Said's Critical Practice	p. 499
List of Contributors	p. 513
Index	p. 521
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