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Nicolas Vandeviver
This book examines the earliest writings of Edward Said and the foundations of what came to be known as postcolonial criticism, in order to reveal how the groundbreaking author of…
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Riley Quinn
Advertisements for soap. The image of a lm star. We accept these common objects as a normal part of our life. But each also carries hidden messages that none of…
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Timothy Brennan
A biography of the Palestinian thinker Edward Said –
William D. Hart (Duke University, North Carolina)
Provides an account of Edward Said’s critique of modern culture.
Dominique Edde
An intimate account of Said’s thought
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Debjani Ganguly and Ned Curthoys (eds.)
Offers a critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity’s greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. This book addresses an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their…
Hamid Dabashi
An intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries leading public intellectuals
Edward W Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism , Said…
Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his book Orientalism , Edward W Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This volume on…
David Barsamian
Interviews with the late Edward Said, world-renowned literary scholar, cultural critic, and advocate for Palestinian rights.
Paul A. Bove,P A BOVE
This volume brings together outstanding intellectuals from the wide variety of fields - literary criticism, postcolonial studies, musicology, Middle Eastern Studies, anthropology, and journalism - on which Edward Said has…
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Edward W. Said
A penetrating look at the way in which experts, policy-makers and the media have dealt with the crisis in Iran and the Middle East. With examples, Said demonstrates that the…
By considering the emerging social responsibilities of writers and intellectuals in an ever more interconnected world and pointing out that the canonized thinkers of today were yesterday’s revolutionaries, Said makes…
Using the author’s personal letters as a guide to understanding Joseph Conrad’s fiction, this title draws a parallel between Conrad’s view of his own life and the manner and form…
Edward Said,David Barsamian
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Daniel Barenboim,Edward Said
Stunning account of conversations between these two great intellectuals of our time
William V. Spanos
With the untimely death of Edward W Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. This title examines…
Edward W. Said has been a controversial and influential figure in and around the US academy for well over three decades. In this ciollection of interviews, Said reveals the displacements…
Jeanne Morefield
This is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Morefield argues that Said’s critique provides a timely approach that bridges…
The contributors to this volume - many among the foremost Edward Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic, his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers…
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.
J. LeBlanc
John Randolph LeBlanc examines the political oeuvre of critic and activist Edward Said and finds that Said preferred reconciliation to segregation in Palestine/Israel. LeBlanc argues that Said’s criticism speaks to…
Ibn Warraq
Presents a systematic critique of Edward Said’s work Orientalism . This book looks at the destructive influence of Said’s study on the history of Western painting, especially of the 19th…
A collection of interviews conducted during the past twenty-five years covers such topics as Said’s nomadic upbringing under colonial rule, his politically active childhood, and his perspectives of fellow critics…
Edward Said saw music as a reflection of his ideas on literature and history and paid close attention to its composition and creative possibilities. This book brings together three decades…
In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which…
This collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since 1983’s The World, the Text, and the Critic, reconfirms that Edward Said is the most impressive, consequential, and elegant critic…
In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compelled us to question our culture’s most privileged myths. Now with this impassioned and incisive book, our foremost Palestinian-American intellectual challenges…
Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace. In these essays…
Using many examples, ‘Covering Islam’ demonstrates that the media and the government-business establishment have produced a dangerously misleading and oversimplified portrait of Islam and Muslims, based on ignorance, inaccuracy and…
Publicada originalmente en 1993, Cultura e imperialismo / Culture and Imperialism es una obra indispensable que restablece el dialogo entre la literatura y la vida, y permite comprender uno de…
Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal…
A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. Said…
Six lectures discuss what it means to be an intellectual and the role of intellectuals in society.
In his last collection of essays, one of the most highly regarded cultural critics of our time examines works produced by Strauss, Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, and other artists…
Writing with passion and intelligence, Said retraces the Palestinian Hejira, its disastrous flirtation with Saddam Hussein, and its ambitious peace accord with Israel. Said demolishes Western stereotypes about the Muslim…
After a fatal medical diagnosis in 1991, Edward Said decided to leave a personal record of his life, one that re-creates the lost Arab world of his childhood in Palestine…
Iffat Sharmin
William Shakespeare’s plays reflect Elizabethan society.By manipulating our senses of what constitutes reality, plays/texts evoke people and culture for us.By telling us tales of the Orient and the Orientals, Shakespeare…
