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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2010
Online ISBN:
9780511780769
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780769
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
Series:
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Book description

One of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century, Edward Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and a noted music critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. In his books, as scholarly as they are readable, he challenged conventional critical demarcations between disciplines. His major opus, Orientalism, is a key text in postcolonial studies that continues to influence as well as challenge scholars in the field. Conor McCarthy introduces the reader to Said's major works and examines how his work and life were intertwined. He explains recurring themes in Said's writings on literature and empire, on intellectuals and literary theory, on music and on the Israel/Palestine conflict. This concise, informative and clearly written introduction for students beginning to study Said is ideally set up to explain the complexities of his work to new audiences.

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"Conor McCarthy presents a lucid and highly readable overview of the oeuvre of one of the major intellectuals of our time."
--College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies

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Contents

Contents
References
Guide to further reading
Works by Edward W. Said
Said, Edward W., Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography (1966; New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)
Said, Edward W., Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975; New York: Columbia University Press, 1985)
Said, Edward W., Orientalism (1978; London: Penguin, 2003)
Said, Edward W., The Question of Palestine (1979; London: Vintage, 1992)
Said, Edward W., Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (1981; London: Vintage, 1997)
Said, Edward W., The World, the Text, and the Critic (London: Faber and Faber, 1983)
Said, Edward W., After the Last Sky (London: Faber and Faber, 1986)
Said, Edward W., Musical Elaborations (London: Chatto and Windus, 1991)
Said, Edward W., Culture and Imperialism (London: Chatto and Windus, 1993)
Said, Edward W., The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination 1969–1994 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1994)
Said, Edward W., Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures (New York: Pantheon, 1994)
Said, Edward W., Peace and Its Discontents: Gaza–Jericho 1993–1995 (London: Vintage, 1995)
Said, Edward W., Out of Place: A Memoir (London: Granta, 1999)
Said, Edward W., The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After (London: Granta, 2000)
Said, Edward W., Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000)
Said, Edward W., Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said, ed. and intro. Gauri Viswanathan (New York: Pantheon, 2001)
Said, Edward W., Freud and the Non-European (London: Verso, 2003)
Said, Edward W., From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap (London: Bloomsbury, 2004)
Said, Edward W., Humanism and Democratic Criticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004)
Said, Edward W., On Late Style (London: Bloomsbury, 2006)
Said, Edward W., Music at the Limits (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)
Said, Edward and Barenboim, Daniel, Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society, ed. Ara Guzelimian (New York: Pantheon, 2002)
Said, Edward and Hitchens, Christopher (eds.), Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestine Question (London: Verso, 1988)
Recommended reading
Ahmad, Aijaz, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (London: Verso, 1992)
Ansell-Pearson, Keith, Parry, Benita, and Squires, Judith (eds.), Cultural Readings of Imperialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1997)
Aruri, Naseer and Shuraydi, Muhammad A. (eds.), Revising Culture, Reinventing Peace: The Influence of Edward W. Said (New York: Olive Branch Press, 2001)
Ashcroft, Bill and Ahluwalia, Pal, Edward Said (London: Routledge, 2008)
Bové, Paul A., Intellectuals in Power: A Genealogy of Critical Humanism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
Bové, Paul A. (ed.), Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000)
Brennan, Tim, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006)
Clifford, James, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988)
Deane, Seamus, ‘Under Eastern and Western Eyes’, boundary 2, 28:1 (Spring 2001), pp. 1–18
Deane, Seamus, ‘Edward Said (1935–2003): A Late Style of Humanism’, The Field Day Review, 1 (2004), pp. 189–202
Hart, William D., Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Hussein, Abdirahman A., Edward Said: Criticism and Society (London: Verso, 2002)
Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia (ed.), Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006)
Radhakrishnan, R., History, the Human, and the World Between (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008)
Singh, Amritjit and Johnson, Bruce G. (eds.), Interviews with Edward W. Said (Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2004)
Sokmen, Muge and Ertur, Basak (eds.), Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said (London: Verso, 2008)
Spanos, William, The Legacy of Edward W. Said (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009)
Sprinker, Michael (ed.), Edward Said: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992)
Varadharajan, Asha, Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno, Said, and Spivak (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
Williams, Patrick (ed.), Edward Said, Sage Masters in Modern Social Thought, 4 vols. (London: Sage Books, 2001)

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