Waiting For Barbarians Pa (Said)

by Said,Edward

• ISBN13: 9781844672462
• ISBN10: 1844672468
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

Bringing together some of the figures most closely associated with Edward Said's scholarship, Waiting for the Barbarians looks at Said the public intellectual and literary critic, and his political and intellectual legacy: the future through the lens of his work. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Timothy Brennan is professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. His books include At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now and, most recently, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of the Left and Right. He writes for a number of journals, including New Left Review and The Nation.

Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, and a member of the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science and the School of Public and International Affairs at Columbia University. His previous books include Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Citizen and Subject, and When Victims Become Killers. From Kampala, Uganda, he now divides his time between New York and Kampala.

Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His many books include The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and, most recently, Gaza in Crisis (with Noam Chomsky). He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.

Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision; The Question of Zion ; and the novel Albertine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Keynote Address	p. xiii
The Power of Literature
The Making of a Counter-Tradition	p. 3
The Political Edge of Fiction	p. 15
Speaking Truth to Power
Orientalizing the Orientals: The Other Message of Edward Said	p. 33
Edward Said and Palestine: Balancing the Academic and the Political, the Public and the Private	p. 44
Edward Said and the Style of the Public Intellectual	p. 53
From Auerbach to Said in Istanbul: Saidian Publishing in Turkey	p. 66
The Question of Palestine
The Saidian Fusion of Horizons	p. 83
Analyzing Palestine: Post-Mortem or Prognosis?	p. 93
The Role of Palestinian Intellectuals in the Collective Struggle for Palestinian Freedom	p. 108
Beginning with Edward Said	p. 121
Looking at Today Through Said's Lenses
Orientalism/Occidentalism: The Impasse of Modernity	p. 137
Said's Antinomies	p. 155
Said, Religion, and Secular Criticism	p. 164
On Blasphemy, Bigotry, and the Politics of Culture Talk	p. 176
Notes on Editors and Contributors	p. 185
Index	p. 194
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