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…

Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.

Reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. This book presents a view of the development of literary history…

The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception illustrates that Melville, in his own time, was aware of the negative consequences of the deeply inscribed exceptionalist American identity and recognized…