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Edward W. Said, Moustafa Bayoumi | 472 pages | 01 Oct 2000 | Random House USA Inc | 9780375709364 | English | New York, The Edward Said reader - Boston University Libraries

Follow us on Twitter! Subscribe on YouTube! Our mission is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to help create stories and communicate ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire. Elementary Secondary Higher Ed. Toggle navigation Higher Education. Download high-resolution cover. Edited by Moustafa Bayoumi , Andrew Rubin. Add to Wish List. Knopf Vintage. On sale Dec 18, Pages Add to cart Add to list Exam Copies. See Additional Formats. Edward Said, the renowned literary and and passionately engaged , is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and , Peace and Its Discontents , and the seminal study , have influenced not only our worldview but the very terms of public . The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all of Said's books, from the groundbreaking study of to his new memoir, Out of Place. Whether he is writing of 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, , and : in short, of all those fields that his work has influenced and, in some cases, transformed. Preface Mariam C. Edward W. He died in in . Besides his academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram ; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia, and the ; and was the music critic for The Nation. Table of Contents. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. The Republic of Imagination. Essays in Understanding, . Ecce Homo. . Walking a Literary Labryinth. Nancy M. Representations of the Intellectual. Minima Moralia. Theodor Adorno. Stefan Zweig. The Portable . Edmund Burke. Thinking Without a Banister. Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the Freud Archives. Janet Malcolm. On Suicide. Emile Durkheim. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. Alain De Botton. Known and Strange Things. The Divided Self. The Everyman Chesterton. Now What? Roy Scranton. The Sublime Object of Ideology. Slavoj Zizek. The Birth of Tragedy. What Is ? . Changing My Mind. How to Breathe Underwater. Julie Orringer. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance. The Journals of . Leonard Peikoff and Ayn Rand. The Verso Book of Dissent. Another Tale to Tell. . Read Download The Edward Said Reader PDF – PDF Download

The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all of Said's books, from the groundbreaking 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. Inhalt The Claims of Individuality The Palestinian Experience Molestation and Authority in Narrative Fiction Orientalism Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims Islam as News Secular Criticism Permission to Narrate Yeats and Performance as an Extreme Occasion Jane Austen and Empire Expatriates and Marginals On Writing a Memoir An Interview with Edward W Said Yet a resurgence of Palestinian nationalism after the Arab defeat of , and a sabbatical in Beirut in after years in the US, helped reveal the creativity of that tension. By the mids I was in the rich but unenviable position of speaking for two diametrically opposed constituencies, one western, the Arab. The Edward Said Reader traces the development of his writing, from his first book on Conrad, through the seminal trilogy on the relationship between the Arab or Islamic world and the west - Orientalism, The Question of and Covering Islam - to Culture and Imperialism, whose most contentious chapter proved to be that linking Jane Austen's to Antiguan slave plantations. He revolutionised swathes of the academy by insisting that could not be understood outside its links with empire, and exposed the "invention" of the , which "helped Europe define itself by being its opposite". The title essay recognises the creativity of exile without glibly denying its pain, particularly for refugees who lack his cushioning affluence. His aim was partly to restore to increasingly arid real historical experience, especially that of migration "the greatest single fact of the past three decades" , dislocation, empire and exile. He was drawn to "stubborn autodidacts" and "intellectual misfits", such as Conrad and Swift, and Theodor Adorno. While the Reader is suited to the systematic student, the essays in Reflections on Exile provide the better lay introduction, and are often lighter in tone and catholic in scope. Scathing about V S Naipaul a "gifted native informer" with "blocked development" and Orwell, both renowned for the transparency and "honesty" of their styles, Said writes: "Like all style, 'good' or transparent writing has to be demystified for its complicity with the power that allows it to be there. Classical music recurs, with pieces on Bach, Schumann, Chopin and Glenn Gould, as Said, a sometime concert pianist, revels in polyphony and laments the modern isolation of music from other arts. He gauchely fails to convince the film-maker Gillo Pontecorvo auteur of to turn his hand to Palestine, while Hollywood's biblical epics are ridiculed for bypassing Egypt's Arab identity; "Charlton Moses" is the "American abroad". In welcome lapses into relative levity, Said finds in Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan an attractive immigrant orphan, pioneer of "grunts and tree-swinging", who vastly improved on Edgar Rice Burroughs's "relentlessly Darwinian" novels. Paying homage to the subversive role of the Egyptian Tahia Carioca, in his view the finest belly-dancer ever, Said deplores the "appalling wiggling and jumping around that passes for 'sexiness' among Greek and American imitators", noting with stern authority: "As in bullfighting, the essence of the classic Arab belly-dancer's art is not how much but how little the artist moves. Said's work has sometimes been misunderstood as attacking the , when what he does more often is read between its lines. As he says in the Reader , "I've always been interested in what gets left out. In "The Politics of Knowledge" he sees off the dismal strains of drum- beating identity politics, which he regards as revelling in victimhood or "possessive exclusivism" "only women can write for or about women". Although the unequal contest conjures the image of a sledgehammer cracking a nut, his clarity is useful: "It does not finally matter who wrote what, but rather how a work is written and how it is read Marginality and homelessness are not to be gloried in; they are to be brought to an end. Partly because of empire, we share the same "irreducibly secular" world, with a common language of rights and ideals. Box office: Education Schools Teachers Universities Students. Higher education. The Edward Said Reader by Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin, eds. | Penguin Random House Canada

More Details Original Title. Other Editions 6. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Edward Said Reader , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Edward Said Reader. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Edward Said Reader. Jul 25, Tim rated it it was amazing. Writing a review on a collection of literature from such a distinguished man as Edward Said is daunting to say the least. First and foremost because the man himself was an extraordinary literary critic in his own right. He was that and much more. Said exemplifies my idea of the ultimate intellectual. He possessed a gifted knowledge of many different fields, and was able to constantly astound with his perceptive mind, unique ways of viewing a particular topic, and from being on the outside as it Writing a review on a collection of literature from such a distinguished man as Edward Said is daunting to say the least. He possessed a gifted knowledge of many different fields, and was able to constantly astound with his perceptive mind, unique ways of viewing a particular topic, and from being on the outside as it were. Said always viewed himself as an exile, and rightfully so. He was never really at home anywhere, mostly because his homes shifted from Egypt to Palestine, Lebanon and ultimately America. These moves were out of necessity and not choice. His view on music incorporated the political as did his literary criticism. The view of the Orient, the other, the unfamiliar culture exemplified and shone a light on the xenophobia inherent in the differences between East and West. The grasp of the crisis in Palestine is told beautifully by someone perfectly fit to do so. That role is something to which most of his Palestinian admirers could relate. I am nowhere near the level of the man, but I can relate to his ideas of the intellectual being a bit of an exile no matter where they are located. The idea of the exile being an outsider to society, marginalized and often discriminated against struck a chord with me. Through my own life of being a Vegas club kid to my political radicalization, I can feel the loneliness, abandonment and displacement in these later years that can come with free-thinking and not being a part of the prevailing view. Said made it quite clear that being an exile was more than just a geographical condition. Said, like Chomsky after him, was not only critical of the Zionists, but of what he saw as corruption in leaders such as Arafat and others. These complexities will and are requiring constant re-examination of different ways of dealing with the crisis. This book is a perfect introduction to the works of the man, and a worthy tribute to such an outstanding and brave voice in cultural criticism. Aug 13, Raimo Wirkkala rated it liked it. Philosophers and tend to write for their peers and, in doing so, feel it necessary to present their bona fides by flexing their vocabularies. This can be very impressive but it does not make for great writing. That being said, Mr. Said is certainly well worth reading and this book provides a good anthology of his best work. His thoughts on the Palestinian issue are thought provoking and provide an important counterpoint to the received wisdom brought to us over the years by the Philosophers and intellectuals tend to write for their peers and, in doing so, feel it necessary to present their bona fides by flexing their vocabularies. His thoughts on the Palestinian issue are thought provoking and provide an important counterpoint to the received wisdom brought to us over the years by the mainstream media. My good friend Nicole recommended then lent me the Edward Said Reader after a wide-ranging conversation in the law school hallway. I took three months to read it partly because law school doesnt leave as much time for pleasure-reading as Id like, but, admittedly, this isnt an easy read. Intellectual writers point out problems wed rather not think about and theyre frequently hard to understand. Said fits both stereotypes and this will turn some people off. He expresses what are generally My good friend Nicole recommended then lent me the Edward Said Reader after a wide- ranging conversation in the law school hallway. He expresses what are generally considered controversial views about U. He builds on the work of other intellectuals who are well-known within the intellectual community, which leads him to couch deep concepts in single words, leaving them unexplained. I turned to the dictionary and other resources more than a couple times to understand some of his terminology. What slowed me down more than anything else though were my frequent pauses for deep thought. I contemplated how holding those feelings and concepts feels … to be so alienated in so many ways but at the same time to succumb to the irresistible urge to reach out to others and help them understand. He was Palestinian, but at the same time unable to fully share in their collective experience by virtue of his privileged youth, his Protestant upbringing, his exiled distance, and his intellectual skepticism. He directly influenced the mainstream of intellectual Western thought and yet was simultaneously rejected by it. He spoke for the common Palestinian using language and concepts many of them did not comprehend. It was through his expressions of contradiction and deep alienation — alienation which I sometimes feel, albeit perhaps a little less deservedly — that I gained what I think is a deeper understanding of his take on the lovely, savage mess that is human society. Thank you, Nicole. Feb 19, Adam rated it really liked it Shelves: present , literaryandcriticaltheory , . A fairly representative sampling of Said's writings. Slightly more emphasis on his political writing than his literary criticism and theory, but of course the two are necessarily intertwined. Said was, of course, a great intellectual figure, and exactly the kind of intellectual figure we desperately need: compassionate, vital, exciting, and emotionally and intellectually honest even where it doesn't necessarily serve his rhetorical purpose. May 23, Sheppard rated it it was amazing Shelves: history-politics , postcolonial-studies. Said was brilliant. Mar 31, Andrew N. Why I am missing from this? Didn't Bayoumi I co-edit? At any rate, please send your comments, as we are working on an expanded addition. View 1 comment. View 2 comments. Feb 06, Graydon rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , history-faves. A delightful collection of tricky, occasionally boring, frequently brilliant essays by someone whose mind is among the sharpest of knives. The experience here, when it happens, is the delicious moment of seeing a distinction put into words that you were not yourself able to previously perceive or articulate. Lather, rinse, repeat. Jul 25, Leif rated it really liked it. I've been turning to Said again, given the events in , Palestine, and the Middle East in general. His essays rarely let you down, and this collection of works is a substantive and approachable place from which to start or to which you can easily return. Friedrich Nietzsche. Walking a Literary Labryinth. Nancy M. Representations of the Intellectual. Minima Moralia. Theodor Adorno. Stefan Zweig. The Portable Edmund Burke. Edmund Burke. Thinking Without a Banister. Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the Freud Archives. Janet Malcolm. On Suicide. Emile Durkheim. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. Alain De Botton. Known and Strange Things. The Divided Self. The Everyman Chesterton. Now What? Roy Scranton. The Sublime Object of Ideology. Slavoj Zizek. The Birth of Tragedy. What Is Existentialism? Simone De Beauvoir. Changing My Mind. How to Breathe Underwater. Julie Orringer. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance. The Journals of Ayn Rand. Leonard Peikoff and Ayn Rand. The Verso Book of Dissent. Another Tale to Tell. Henry David Thoreau. A Place to Live. Natalia Ginzburg. Kazuo Ishiguro. Public Enemies. Confessions of a Heretic. .

The Edward Said Reader by Edward W. Said

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world. A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and cultural critic and political thinker Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source. The Selected Works includes key sections from all of Said's books, including his groundbreaking Orientalism; his memoir, Out of Place; and his last book, On Late Style. Whether writing of Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, Jane Austen or Yeats, or of music or the media, Said's uncompromising intelligence casts urgent light on every subject he undertakes. The Selected Works is a joy for the general reader and an indispensable resource for scholars in the many fields that his work has influenced and transformed. The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our time, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Much of his reputation derives from the phenomenal multidisciplinary influence of his book Orientalism. Said's seminal polemic analyzes novels, travelogues, and academic texts to argue that a dominant discourse of West over East has warped virtually all past European and American representation of the Near East. But despite the book's wide acclaim, no systematic critical survey of the rhetoric in Said's representation of Orientalism and the resulting impact on intellectual culture has appeared until today. Drawing on the extensive discussion of Said's work in more than bibliographic entries, has written an ambitious intellectual history of the debates that Said's work has sparked in several disciplines, highlighting in particular its reception among Arab and European scholars. While pointing out Said's tendency to essentialize and privilege certain texts at the expense of those that do not comfortably it his theoretical framework, Varisco analyzes the extensive commentary the book has engendered in , literary and cultural studies, feminist scholarship, history, political science, and anthropology. He employs "critical satire" to parody the exaggerated and pedantic aspects of post-colonial discourse, including Said's profound underappreciation of the role of irony and reform in many of the texts he cites. The end result is a companion volume to Orientalism and the vast research it inspired. Rather than contribute to dueling essentialisms, Varisco provides a path to move beyond the binary of East versus West and the polemics of blame. Reading Orientalism is the most comprehensive survey of Said's writing and thinking to date. It will be of strong interest to scholars of Middle East studies, anthropology, history, cultural studies, post- colonial studies, and literary studies. This insightful critical biography shows us an Edward Said we did not know. Aram Veeser brings forth not the Said of tabloid culture, or Said the remote philosopher, but the actual man, embedded in the politics of the Middle East but soaked in the values of the West and struggling to advance the best European ideas. Veeser shows the organic ties connecting his life, politics, and criticism. Drawing on what he learned over 35 years as Said's student and skeptical admirer, Veeser uses never-before-published interviews, debate transcripts, and photographs to discover a Said who had few inhibitions and loathed conventional routine. He stood for originality, loved unique ideas, wore marvelous clothes, and fought with molten fury. For twenty years he embraced and rejected, at the same time, not only the West, but also and the PLO. At last, his disgust with business-as-usual politics and criticism marooned him on the sidelines of both. The candid tale of Said's rise from elite academic precincts to the world stage transforms not only our understanding of Said—the man and the myth—but also our perception of how intellectuals can make their way in the world. In a collection of intriguing essays on the work of Edward Said, internationally-recognized scholars pay homage to the late critic by addressing many aspects of his oeuvre, including his breakthrough Orientalism, the role of the intellectual, the Question of Palestine, and finally his dramatic memoir, Out of Place. This volume is a useful contribution for classroom use, as well as recreational reading for those interested in the work of this controversial thinker. The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. Ever since the founding of Salmagundi by Robert Boyers in , the journal has been synonymous with the best writers producing first-rate essays on a variety of topics. The contributors' list reads like a who's who of influential contemporary writers and critics, from the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney to one of the more influential literary and cultural critics, Tzvetan Todorov, and the historian John Boswell. A comprehensive guide to the latest work on space. Each entry is a short interpretative essay, outlining the contributions made by the key theorists. In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of Said's conversation, take various forms, including elaborations on his ideas, applications of his thought to new problems, and recollections of the indescribable electricity that made conversation with him intense and memorable. This lively, personal tone is a direct result of editors Homi Bhabha and W. Mitchell urging contributors to write in the spirit of a conversation interrupted, a call on hold, a letter waiting for a reply, a question hanging in the air. Link Network. The item The Edward Said reader, edited by Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. This item is available to borrow from all library branches. Creator Said, Edward W. Summary Presents key selections from the works of Edward Said. Language eng. Publication New York, Vintage Books, Extent xxxiv, pages. Note "A Vintage Books original"--T. Isbn I: Beginnings. The claim of individuality ; The Palestinian experience ; Molestation and authority in narrative fiction -- pt. II: Orientalism and after. Orientalism ; Introduction to orientalism ; The scope of orientalism ; Zionism from the standpoint of its victims ; Islam as news ; Traveling theory ; Secular criticism ; Permission to narrate ; Interiors ; Yeats and decolonization -- pt. III: Late styles. Performance as an extreme occasion ; Jane Austen and empire ; Intellectual exile: expatriates and marginals ; The Middle East "peace process": misleading images and brutal actualities ; On writing a memoir -- pt. IV: Spoken words. An interview with Edward W. Ask a Librarian! Library Locations Map Details.

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