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Edward Said » Read Now
by Pal Ahluwalia, Bill Ashcroft. 167 pgs.

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Edward Said is one of the most important literary, political and cultural theorists of the contemporary world. But until now no one has attempted to assess and explain the significance of his journalism and scholarship in one accessible full-length volume.In this refreshingly clear and timely...
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Edward Said is one of the most important literary, political and cultural theorists of the contemporary world. But until now no one has attempted to assess and explain the significance of his journalism and scholarship in one accessible full-length volume.In this refreshingly clear and timely introduction to Said and his work, Bill Ashcroft and Pal Ahluwalia set out the key tenets of his position and the context out of which his work emerges.Whilst acknowledging the crucial importance of his best-known and most paradigm shifting early work Orientalism , they unravel for the first time the vital part played in his writings by the concept of 'worldliness'. They also illuminate Said's subtle demonstration of the paradoxical nature of 'identity' in the post-colonial world. Edward Said is an extremely useful and enlightening introduction to a key figure for twenty-first-century thought.
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Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture » Read Now
by William D. Hart. 236 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said's critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which it is predicated. It refers to religious and secular traditions and to tropes that extend the meaning and reference of religion and secularism in...
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This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said's critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which it is predicated. It refers to religious and secular traditions and to tropes that extend the meaning and reference of religion and secularism in indeterminate ways. It covers Said's heterogeneous corpus--from Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, his first book, to Orientalism, his most influential book, to his recent writings on the Palestinian question. The religion-secularism distinction lies behind Said's cultural criticism, and his notion of intellectual responsibility.
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Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising against Israeli Occupation (Chap. 1 "Intifada and Independence" by Edward W. Said) » Read Now
by Zachary Lockman, Joel Beinin. 423 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Intifada and Independence Edward W. Said I The Palestinian uprising...infifada on the West Bank and Gaza is said to have begun on December 9, 1987...within the Soviet...
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Cultural Readings of Imperialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History » Read Now
by Keith Ansell-Pearson, Benita Parry, Judith Squires. 304 pgs.

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Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, and Salman Rushdie: Resisting the Ambivalence of Postcolonial Theory, in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics » Read Now
by Youssef Yacoubi. 11 pgs.

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Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (Chap. 17 "Crisis [in Orientalism]" an excerpt from "Culture and Imperialism" by Edward Said) » Read Now
by David Hanks Lodge. 534 pgs.

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'in our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right' David Lodge This new edition of David Lodge's Modern Criticism and Theoryis fully revised and expanded to take...
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'in our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right' David Lodge This new edition of David Lodge's Modern Criticism and Theoryis fully revised and expanded to take account of the developments in theoretical contemporary literary criticism since the publication of the first edition in 1988. Building on the strengths of the first edition, this volume is designed to introduce the reader to the guiding concepts of present literary and cultural debate by presenting substantial extracts from the most seminal thinkers. As with the original edition there is a selection of the most important and representative work from the major schools in contemporary criticism. Concise introductions with updated suggestions for further reading give a context for each essay and the editors have provided footnotes that help explain the most difficult references. Both students and general readers are encouraged to identify for themselves links between essays, as the selection is ordered both historically and thematically.
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Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics (Chap. 2 "Edward Said: Orientalism and Beyond") » Read Now
by Bart J. Moore-Gilbert. 244 pgs.

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Much controversy has recently come to surround the status and value of postcolonial theory. In this comprehensive and accessible survey, the author examines the objections that have been raised against postcolonial theory.
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Edward Said's "Orientalism" Revisited, in New Criterion » Read Now
by Keith Windschuttle. 7 pgs.

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...critic, but the literary critic Edward Said. What the paintings confirmed...a subtle imperialist agenda" Edward Said looms large over the current cultural...Western...
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Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (Chap. 4 "Edward Said and His Critics") » Read Now
by Leela Gandhi. 206 pgs.

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An accessible introduction to the complex new field of postcolonial theory
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Protecting the Kosovars?, in New Left Review » Read Now
by Edward Said. 3 pgs.

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...Edward Said Protecting the Kosovars? Once again, and led by the United States...along with the peace plan, Kosovo would get its independence; this was never said, but only...
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We All Swim Together, in New Statesman » Read Now
by Edward W. Said. 3 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...We all swim together by Edward W. Said Beware of simple labels and vast generalisations...compared to such cults as the Branch Davidians, argues Edward Said Samuel...
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Punishment by Detail, in Monthly Review » Read Now
by Edward W. Said. 6 pgs.

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...Punishment by Detail. by Edward W. Said Aside from the obvious physical discomforts, being...But in any case, Israeli policy will ultimately fail. Edward Said is an...
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The Jewish Wars: Reflections by One of the Belligerents (Chap. 4 "Professor of Terror") » Read Now
by Edward Alexander. 206 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Very much a warrior flourishing words and ideology as his weapons, Edward Alexander launches a counterattack in the war of ideas against Zionism. These essays begin with a dissection of the intifada at the end of 1987 and deal with people and events through 1994, when Israel began to withdraw from...
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Very much a warrior flourishing words and ideology as his weapons, Edward Alexander launches a counterattack in the war of ideas against Zionism. These essays begin with a dissection of the intifada at the end of 1987 and deal with people and events through 1994, when Israel began to withdraw from the disputed territories. Ineffective militarily, Edward Alexander notes, the intifada proved a potent propaganda tool: "The spectacle of young Palestinian Arabs (at least in early the early stages of the uprising, before the violence became highly organized) facing Israeli soldiers won for the Arabs precisely the victory they had sought: it swung liberal, including (if not especially) Jewish liberal, sympathy decisively to the side of the Arabs and against Israel". Alexander's book is the first to subject to withering criticism the "body of ideas that lured Israel into the quagmire called the 'peace process.'" He excoriates prominent figures in politics, journalism, education, and literature who express hostility,to, or open hatred of, Jews, Judaism, and Israel. Convinced that it is in the realm of ideas that the battle will be lost or won, Alexander has given special attention to "some of the more brazen and flamboyant combatants in... the'Jewish wars' - Edward Said, Patrick Buchanan, the late George Ball, Alexander Cockburn, Michael Lerner, Noam Chomsky - and still more to certain omnipresent personality types: the timorous Jew cloaking his timidity in the robes of the biblical prophet; the treacherous Jew presenting betrayal of his own people as ethical idealism; the ferocious antisemite parading as a dispassionate 'critic of Israeli policies'; the journalist and publicist exploiting thefull public-address and public-relations systems afforded by his profession while complaining that his voice is being 'stifled' by 'the Jewish establishment.'" Recurring themes in Alexander's essays are the relations between
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Autobiography, Exile, Home: The Egyptian Memoirs of Gini Alhadeff, Andre Aciman, and Edward Said, in Biography » Read Now
by Roger J. Porter. 14 pgs.

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...GINI ALHADEFF, ANDRE ACIMAN, AND EDWARD SAID. by ROGER J. PORTER...Andre Aciman, and Out of Place by Edward Said. For these writers, as for Becketts...the essay...
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Edward W. Said, in Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) » Read Now
by Andrew N. Rubin. 16 pgs.

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Edward Said: The Palestinian Intellectual Champion, in Contemporary Review » Read Now
by Habeeb Salloum. 4 pgs.

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...Edward Said: The Palestinian Intellectual Champion...were able to draw rock concert crowds like Edward Said and, amazingly, after the lectures, like...stars, he was often...