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Edward Said's Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism

In: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

In: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Ser.

Stein, Mark; Doring, Tobias

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Working with processes of translocation enabled Edward Said to point out interdependence and complementarity across geographical borders and disciplinary boundaries while recognizing cultural difference and the distinct historical experiences of colonizer and colonized. This book brings into focus Said's politics of reading, from his literary criticism in English to his political columns in Arabic. The international contributors--from Britain, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Switzerland, and the United States--investigate his intellectual legacies without necessarily identifying themselves with

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Edward Said's translocations: essays in secular criticism

In: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures 39

Döring, Tobias; Stein, Mark

Most papers in the collection were first presented at "The Edward Said Symposium: Locations, Readings, Legacies," which took place in September, 2008 at Lake Griebnitzsee, near Berlin. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction -- Edward Said: opponent of postcolonial theory / Robert J. C. Young -- Religion and dissent in Said's secular criticism / Gauri Viswanathan -- The archeology of Said: Father Foucault, Dieu Derrida, and other (af)filiations / Chantal Zabus -- A glorious achievement: Edward Said and the last Jewish intellectual / Bryan Cheyette -- Re-reading Said in Arabic: (other)wordly counterpoints / Markus Schmitz -- Edward Said and the practice of comparative literature / Ferial J. Ghazoul -- Out of place or caught in the middle: Edward Said's thinking between humanism and poststructuralism / Rainer Emig -- Overlapping territories-"exilic" readings: Edward Said and the emergence of critical empire analysis in American literary scholarship / Gesa Mackenthun -- Orientalism, opera, and the public sphere / Christopher Balme -- The art of counterpoint: music as site and tool in postcolonial readings / Alexander Honold -- Picturing Palestine: Edward Said and the fiction of photography / Tobias Döring

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