A distinguished panel of contributors assess and expand Edward Said's many contributions to the study of colonialism, imperialism and representation that have marked his career-long struggle to end conflict and further the effort to build civilizati
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A distinguished panel of contributors assess and expand Edward Said's many contributions to the study of colonialism, imperialism and representation that have marked his career-long struggle to end conflict and further the effort to build civilizati
All but three of the essays were originally published in Boundary 2, summer 1998
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-312) and index
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Contents; Introduction; Edward Said talks to Jacqueline Rose; The panic of the visual: a conversation with EdwardW. Said; Race before racism: the disappearance of the American; Criticism between opposition and counterpoint; The matter of language; In responses begins responsibility:music and emotion; The sublime lyrical abstractions of Edward W. Said; Edward W. Said and the American public sphere:speaking truth to power; Uses of aesthetics: after orientalism; Sappers in the stacks: colonial archives, land mines, and truth commissions; Counternarratives, recoveries, refusals
Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, secular criticism, and the question of minority cultureExoticism and orientalism in music: problems for theworldly critic; Notes; Index
