Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / by H. Aram Veeser -- Introduction: Edward Said and the politics of subjectivity -- Orient, Occident, and the constitution of subjectivity -- The subject in overlapping territories and intertwined histories -- Politics of exile, act of memory, and recuperation of the subject -- Intellectuals as subjects of action in the age of New Humanism -- A shift in intellectual trajectory: the Marxist connection -- Conclusion: towards a Saidian paradigm.
Summary:
"Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity explores the articulated and implicated notions of subjectivity in the writings of Edward Said, one of the forthright public intellectuals of our times. The work further analyses the shift in his intellectual trajectory towards a new humanism and dwells on his interface with certain western Marxist thinkers"-- Provided by publisher.
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