Chapters: Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Khalil Gibran, William Peter Blatty, Etel Adnan, Amin Al-Rihani, Hussein Ibish, Ray Hanania, Abraham Mitrie Rihbany, Zainab Salbi, Hisham Sharabi, Lawrence Joseph, M.t. Mehdi, Naomi Shihab Nye, Khaled Mattawa, Suheir Hammad, Diana Abu-Jaber, Mikha'il Na'ima, Catherine Filloux, Hanna Batatu, Will Youmans, Joseph Awad, Ali Abunimah, Jack Marshall, Anthony Shadid, Samuel John Hazo, List of Arab American Writers, Mohja Kahf, Randa Jarrar, Saree Makdisi, Jack Shaheen, Broken Wings, Ahmed Shawki. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 161. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward Wadie Sa d (Arabic pronunciation: Arabic: ; 1 November 1935 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism. Robert Fisk described him as the Palestinians' "most powerful political voice." Said was an influential cultural critic and author, known best for his book Orientalism (1978), which catapulted him to international academic fame. The book presented his influential ideas on Orientalism, the Western study of Eastern cultures. Said contended that Orientalist scholarship was and continues to be inextricably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it, making much of the work inherently politicized, servile to power, and therefore suspect. Grounding much of this thesis in his intimate knowledge of colonial literature such as the fiction of Conrad, and in the post-structuralist theory of Foucault, Derrida and others, Said's Orientalism and following works proved influential in literary theory and criticism, and continue to influence several other fields in the humanities. Orientalism affect...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=18247304
The book presented his influential ideas on Orientalism, the Western study of Eastern cultures.
