Most papers in the collection were first presented at "The Edward Said Symposium: Locations, Readings, Legacies," which took place in September, 2008 at Lake Griebnitzsee, near Berlin. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Edward Said: opponent of postcolonial theory / Robert J. C. Young -- Religion and dissent in Said's secular criticism / Gauri Viswanathan -- The archeology of Said: Father Foucault, Dieu Derrida, and other (af)filiations / Chantal Zabus -- A glorious achievement: Edward Said and the last Jewish intellectual / Bryan Cheyette -- Re-reading Said in Arabic: (other)wordly counterpoints / Markus Schmitz -- Edward Said and the practice of comparative literature / Ferial J. Ghazoul -- Out of place or caught in the middle: Edward Said's thinking between humanism and poststructuralism / Rainer Emig -- Overlapping territories-"exilic" readings: Edward Said and the emergence of critical empire analysis in American literary scholarship / Gesa Mackenthun -- Orientalism, opera, and the public sphere / Christopher Balme -- The art of counterpoint: music as site and tool in postcolonial readings / Alexander Honold -- Picturing Palestine: Edward Said and the fiction of photography / Tobias Döring.
Series:
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 39
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