Edward Said and critical decolonization

This book is dedicated to Edward Said (1935-2003), a major literary and cultural critic, who has been instrumental in promoting decolonization through his analytical and critical writing. Scholarly articles tackle various aspects of Saidʹs writing on fiction, criticism, politics, and music, and the volume includes an extensive bibliography of Edward Said. Edward Said and Critical Decolonization strives to cover the multifaceted career of Said, with emphasis on his critical contribution to decolonization and resistance to hegemony. There are moving testimonies by friends and relatives, students and colleagues, which throw light on his personality. An article by Said himself on the idea of the university is published here for the first time. The volume also includes articles exploring in depth Saidʹs political, critical, and aesthetic positions -- including his views on intellectuals and secular criticism, on traveling theory, and humanism. And Saidʹs thought is explored in relation to other major thinkers such as Freud and Foucault. Contributors: Fadwa Abdel Rahman, Richard Armstrong, Mostafa Bayoumi, Terry Eagleton, Rokus de Groot, Stathis Gourgouris, Hoda Guindi, Ananya Kabir, Lamis El Nakkash, Daisuke Nishihara, Rubén Chuaqui, Yasmine Ramadan, Andrew Rubin, Edward Said, Najla Said, Yumna Siddiqi, David Sweet, Michael Wood, and Youssef Yacoubi. -- Back cover.

"First published in a slightly different form as the English section of Alif: journal of comparative poetics 25 in 2005"--Title page verso.

Remembering Edward Said ---- Of the place / Hoda Guindi -- Desperate youth / Michael Wood -- Edward / Andrew N. Rubin -- Becoming minor : on some significant encounters with Edward Said / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Tribute to my father / Najla Said -- On the university / Edward W. Said -- The late style of Edward Said / Stathis Gourgouris -- Reconciliation without duress : Said, Adorno, and the autonomous intellectual / Moustafa Bayoumi -- Edward Said, humanism, and secular criticism / Yumna Siddiqi -- Notes on Edward Said's View of Michel Foucault / Rubén Chuaqui -- Last words : Said, Freud, and traveling theory / Richard H. Armstrong -- Edward Said and the avant-garde /David LeHardy Sweet -- Said and Achebe : writers at the crossroads of culture / Fadwa AbdelRahman -- Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, and Salman Rushdie : resisting the ambivalence of postcolonial theory / Youssef Yacoubi -- Perspectives of polyphony in Edward Said's writings / Rokus de Groot -- Said, orientalism, and Japan / Daisuke Nishihara -- Edward Said, cultural politics, and critical theory (an interview) / Terry Eagleton -- A bibliographical guide to Edward Said / Yasmine Ramadan.