Waiting for the Barbarians : a tribute to Edward W. Said /: a tribute to Edward W. Said. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Müge Gürsoy Sökmen and Bașak Ertür.
• Other Names: Said, Edward W; Sökmen, Müge Gürsoy; Ertür, Bașak
• Contents: Preface : Edward and Istanbul / Mariam C. Said -- Keynote address : The intellectual and the double exile / Elias Khoury -- pt. I. The power of literature -- The making of a counter-tradition / Timothy Brennan -- The political edge of fiction / Jacqueline Rose -- pt. II. Speaking truth to power -- Orientalizing the orientals : the other message of Edward Said / Fawwaz Traboulsi -- Edward Said and Palestine : balancing the academic and the political, the public and the private / Rashid Khalidi -- Edward Said and the style of the public intellectual / Saree Makdisi -- From Auerbach to Said in Istanbul : Saidian publishing in Turkey / Tuncay Birkan -- pt. III. The question of Palestine -- The Saidian fusion of horizons / Ilan Pappé -- Analyzing Palestine : post-modern or prognosis? / Raja Shehadeh -- The role of Palestinian intellectuals in the collective struggle for Palestinian freedom / Karma Nabulsi -- Beginning with Edward Said / Joseph A. Massad -- pt. IV. Looking at today through Said's lenses -- Orientalism/occidentalism : the impasse of modernity / Meltem Ahiska -- Said's antinomies / Harry Harootunian -- Said, religion, and secular criticism / Gauri Viswanathan -- On blasphemy, bigotry, and the politics of culture talk / Mahmood Mandani.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Verso
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 204 pages)
• Subjects: 306; 956.04; Culture -- Congresses; Intellectuals -- Congresses; Criticism -- Congresses; Intellectuels -- Congrès; Critique -- Congrès; Criticism; Culture; Intellectuals; Palästinafrage; Kulturkritik; Conference papers and proceedings; Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789604191; 1789604192
• Related ISBNs: 9781844672455; 9781844672462; 1844672468; 184467245X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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