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Title Counterpoints : Edward Said's legacy / editors, May Telmissany and Stephanie Tara Schwartz
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

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Contents Cover13; -- Contents13; -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: EDWARD SAIDS HUMANISM13; -- Chapter Two: READING BETWEEN THE LINES13; -- Chapter Three: ON THE MARGINS OF MIDDLE13;EASTERN STUDIES13; -- Chapter Four: EDWARD SAIDS INCOMPLETE13;DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIVISM13; -- Chapter Five: EDWARD SAID AND THE POLITICS13;OF SUBJECTIVITY13; -- Chapter Six: EDWARD SAID13; -- Chapter Seven: THE EXILIC IMAGINATION13; -- Chapter Eight: INSIDE-OUTSIDE13; -- Chapter Nine: SAID AMONGST THE CARIBBEANS13; -- Chapter Ten: THE OTHERS DISHES13; -- Chapter Eleven: TECHNO-ORIENTALISM13;IN EAST-ASIAN CONTEXTS13; -- Chapter Twelve: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE OTHER13; -- Chapter Thirteen: ESSENTIALIST STEREOTYPES IN TEXTBOOKS13;ON HISPANIC STUDIES13; -- Chapter Fourteen: TEACHING SAID13; -- Contributors
Summary Revolving around the theme of "counterpoint" extensively used by Edward Said as the interplay of diverse ideas and discrepant experiences, this book aims to explore Said's contribution to the fields of comparative literature, literary criticism, postcolonial theory, exilic and transnational studies, and socio-political thought among many others. Overshadowed by his legitimate political positions in support to the Palestinian cause and at odds Other Islamophobic hostilities, Said's intellectual ..
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Subject Said, Edward W
SUBJECT Said, Edward W. fast
Subject Palestinian Americans -- Biography
Critics -- United States -- Biography
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
Politics and literature.
Humanities.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.
Literature: history & criticism.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Critics
Intellectuals
Palestinian Americans
Politics and literature
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Talmisānī, Mayy, 1965-
Schwartz, Stephanie Tara.
ISBN 9781443820660
1443820660
9781443820929
144382092X