Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World

by Ghosh; Ranjan

• ISBN13: 9780415963237
• ISBN10: 0415963230
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Edward Said is widely recognized for his work as a critic and theorist of Orientalism and the Palestine crisis, but far less attention has been devoted to his considerable body of literary and cultural criticism. In this edited collection, the contributors - many among the foremost Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic; his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers (including Derrida, Ricoeur, Barthes and Bloom); and his involvement with major movements and concerns of his time (such as music, Feminism, New Humanism, and Marxism). Featuring freshly carved out essays on new areas of intervention, the volume is an indispensable addition for those interested in Edward Said and the many areas in which his legacy looms.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxi
'A Roomy Place Full of Possibility': Said's Orientalism and the Literary	p. 3
Edward Said and Roland Barthes: Criticism versus Essayism. Or, Roads and Meetings Missed	p. 19
Derrida and Said: Ships that Pass in the Night	p. 36
Said...Bloom...Vico	p. 53
The Materiality and Ideality of Text: Said and Ricoeur	p. 65
'The Southern Question' and Said's Geographical Critical Consciousness	p. 77
Fellow Travellers and Homeless Souls: Said's Critical Marxism	p. 91
Edward Said and the Interplay of Music, History and Ideology	p. 104
Edward Said and (the Postcolonial Occlusion of) Gender	p. 124
Reading Orientalism in Istanbul: Edward Said and Orhan Pamuk	p. 137
On Late Style: Edward Said's Humanism	p. 150
Autobiography and Exile: Edward Said's Out of Place	p. 165
Edward Said, American International Policy and the War on Terror	p. 176
Representations of the Intellectual: The Historian as 'Outsider'	p. 190
Contributors	p. 207
Index	p. 211
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