Culture and Resistance: Conversations With Edward W. Said
By David Barsamian, Edward W. Said
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Publisher: South End Press
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2003-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0896086712
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780896086715
Binding: Hardcover
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Book Description:
In his latest book of interviews, Edward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and social change. He reveals his latest thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and lays out a compelling vision for a secular, democratic future in the Middle East-and globally.
Edward W. Said, a renowned cultural and literary critic, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and was educated there, in Egypt, and in the United States. His books include Orientalism, The Question of Palestine, Covering Islam, Culture and Imperialism, and The Politics of Dispossession. He has also published a memoir, Out of Place. Mr. Said is University Professor of English and Comparative Lit-erature at Columbia University. In October 2001, he received the $200,000 Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement.
David Barsamian's interview books feature conversations with luminaries such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Edward W. Said. A regular contributor to The Progressive and Z Magazine, Barsamian's most recent interview books include Propaganda and the Public Mind and Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire, available from South End Press. He is also the author of The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. Barsamian is the producer of the critically acclaimed program Alternative Radio.
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The World, the Text, and the Critic
By Edward W. Said
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 1983-06-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0674961870
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780674961876
Binding: Paperback
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Book Description:
This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orientalism, Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, for example, and by such influences as Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. He argues, however, that the various methods and schools have had a crippling effect through their tendency to force works of literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring the complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.
The critic must maintain a distance both from critical systems and from the dogmas and orthodoxies of the dominant culture, Said contends. He advocates freedom of consciousness and responsiveness to history, to the exigencies of the text, to political, social, and human values, to the heterogeneity of human experience. These characteristics are brilliantly exemplified in his own analyses of individual authors and works.
Combining the principles and practice of criticism, the book offers illuminating investigations of a number of writers--Swift, Conrad, Lukacs, Renan, and many others--and of concepts such as repetition, originality, worldliness, and the roles of audiences, authors, and speakers. It asks daring questions, investigates problems of urgent significance, and gives a subtle yet powerful new meaning to the enterprise of criticism in modern society.
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Culture and Imperialism
By Edward W. Said
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Publisher: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 1994-05-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0679750541
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780679750543
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
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 is a brilliant . . . scholar, aesthete and political activist."--Washington Post Book World.
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Orientalism (Penguin History)
By Edward W. Said
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 1998-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0140238670
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780140238679
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.
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