Edward Said

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Emancipation and Representation Adel Iskandar and Hakem Rustom 1. Affiliating with Edward Said Joseph Massad Part 1. On Colony and Aesthetics 2. Edward Said Remembered on September 11, 2004: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Ben Conisbee Baer 3. Beginnings Again Michael Wood 4. Side by Side: The Other Is Not Mute Laura Nader 5. Edward Said and Anthropology Nicholas B. Dirks 6. The Critic and the Public: Edward Said and World Literature Timothy Brennan 7. Affiliating Edward Said Closer to Home: Reading Postcolonial Women's Texts Denise deCaires Narain 8. Translating Heroism: Locating Edward Said on Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love Katherine Callen King 9. Edward Said and the Poetry of Decolonization Jahan Ramazani 10. Edward Said in Contemporary Arabic Culture Sabry Hafez 11. "Long, Languorous, Repetitious Line": Edward Said's Critique of Arab Popular Culture Anastasia Valassopoulos 12. Edward Said and Counterpoint Rokus de Groot Part 2. Palestine, Israel, and Zionism 13. The Arab/Jewish Counterpoint: An Interview with Daniel Barenboim Hakem Rustom 14. Speaking Truth to Power: On Edward Said and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle Ardi Imseis 15. Edward Said and the Palestine Question Avi Shlaim 16. Representation and Liberation: From Orientalism to the Palestinian Crisis Bill Ashcroft 17. Said and the Palestinian Diaspora: A Personal Reflection Ghada Karmi 18. The Question of Zionism: Continuing the Dialogue Jacqueline Rose 19. Edward Said's Impact on Post-Zionist Critique in Israel Ilan Pappe 20. The "Postcolonial" in Translation: Reading Said in Hebrew Ella Shohat 21. Exile With/Out God: A Jewish Commentary in Memory of Edward Said Marc H. Ellis Part 3. The Intellectual at a Crossroads 22. The Incalculable Loss: Conversations with Noam Chomsky Adel Iskandar 23. "Contented Homeland Peace": The Motif of Exile in Edward Said Robert Spencer 24. A New "Copernican" Revolution: Said's Critique of Metaphysics and Theology

Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Ben Conisbee Baer, Daniel Barenboim, Timothy Brennan, Noam Chomsky, Denise DeCaires-Narain, Nicholas Dirks, Marc H. Ellis, Rokus de Groot, Sabry Hafez, Abdirahman A. Hussein, Ardi Imseis, Adel Iskandar, Ghada Karmi, Katherine Callen King, Joseph Massad, W. J. T. Mitchell, Laura Nader, Ilan Pappe, Benita Parry, Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Jahan Ramazani, Jacqueline Rose, Lecia Rosenthal, Hakem Rustom, Avi Shlaim, Ella Habiba Shohat, Robert Spencer, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Asha Varadharajan, Michael Wood

"Edward Said: Emancipation and Representation explores themes of aesthetics, identity, colonialism, Palestine, Israel, Zionism and intellectuals. Each section includes path-breaking new work in the growing field of Edward Said Studies. No other existing book deals with Said's work from so many varied perspectives."¿Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University