Edward Said's Translocations : Essays in Secular Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780415886376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

Mark Stein; Tobias Doring

Opis

This text brings into focus Said's politics of reading from his literary criticism in English to his political columns in Arabic. The international contributors look at his intellectual legacies without necessarily identifying themselves with the critical positions these involve.

Spis treści

Introduction: Edward Said’s Translocations  Part I.  1. Edward Said: Opponent of Postcolonial Theory Robert J.C. Young  2. Religion and Dissent in Said's Secular Criticism Gauri Viswanathan  3. The Archaeology of Said: Father Foucault, Dieu Derrida, and Other (Af)Filiations Chantal Zabus  4. A Glorious Achievement: Edward Said and the Last Jewish Intellectual Bryan Cheyette  Part II.  5. Re-Reading Said in Arabic: (Other)worldly Counterpoints Markus Schmitz  6. Edward Said and the Practice of Comparative Literature Ferial J. Ghazoul  7. Out of Place or Caught in the Middle: Edward Said’s Thinking Between Humanism and Poststructuralism Rainer Emig  8. Overlapping Territories-- ‘Exilic’ Readings: Edward Said and the Emergence of Critical Empire Analysis in American Literary Scholarship Gesa Mackenthun  Part III. 9. Orientalism, Opera, and the Public Sphere Christopher Balme  10. The Art of Counterpoint: Music as Site and Tool in Postcolonial Readings Alexander Honold  11. Picturing Palestine: Edward Said and the Fiction of Photography Tobias Döring

O autorze

Tobias Döring is Chair of English Literature at the LMU Munich, where he specializes in Postcolonial and Early Modern Studies. His books include Caribbean-English Passages (Routledge, 2002), A History of Postcolonial Literature in 12 ¹/₂ Books (WVT, 2007) and Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction (Klett, 2008).

Mark Stein is Chair of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies at WWU Münster and President of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL). His research interests include anglophone cultural production from around the globe; transmigration and Diaspora studies; and critical and cultural theory.