The Edward Said Reader
Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism, Peace and Its Discontents, and the seminal study Orientalism, have influenced not only our worldview but the very terms of public discourse.\ The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all of Said's books, from the groundbreaking...
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Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism, Peace and Its Discontents, and the seminal study Orientalism, have influenced not only our worldview but the very terms of public discourse.The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all of Said's books, from the groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad to his new memoir, Out of Place. Whether he is writing of Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, Jane Austen or Yeats, music or the media, Said's uncompromising intelligence casts urgent light on every subject he undertakes. The Edward Said Reader will prove a joy to the general reader and an indispensable resource for scholars of politics, history, literature, and cultural studies: in short, of all those fields that his work has influenced and, in some cases, transformed.New York Observer - MatzThis anthology succeeds in condensing the work of an intellect defines otherwise by its great expanse...The chronological approach encourages us to focus on the continuity in Mr. Said's thought amidst the great fluctuations in his material. Thsi volume gives us Edward Said in his ferocious unity.
Introduction1The Claims of Individuality (1966)32The Palestinian Experience (1969)143Molestation and Authority in Narrative Fiction (1971)384Orientalism (1978)635Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims (1979)1146Islam as News (1980)1697Traveling Theory (1982)1958Secular Criticism (1983)2189Permission to Narrate (1984)24310Interiors (1986)26711Yeats and Decolonization (1988)29112Performance as an Extreme Occasion (1989)31713Jane Austen and Empire (1990)34714Intellectual Exile: Expatriates and Marginals (1993)36815The Middle East "Peace Process": Misleading Images and Brutal Actualities (1995)38216On Writing a Memoir (1999)39917An Interview with Edward W. Said (1999)419Notes445Permissions Acknowledgments471
\ MatzThis anthology succeeds in condensing the work of an intellect defines otherwise by its great expanse...The chronological approach encourages us to focus on the continuity in Mr. Said's thought amidst the great fluctuations in his material. Thsi volume gives us Edward Said in his ferocious unity.\ —New York Observer\ \
