Paradoxical Citizenship:

Edward Said

 

Editor: Silvia Nagy-Zekmi

 

Lexington Books, 2006

part of The Roman and Littlefield Publishing Group

 

 

Preface:          

Ultimate Coherence                                                                        xi

 

Introduction:

The Word, the Text and Said                                                           xv

Gareth Griffiths

 

I. Hegemony and the Role of the Intellectual                         1

 

Representing the Non-Canonical, Knowledge                                3

and Power: Edward Said and the 'Mainstreaming'

of Postcolonial Literatures

Valérie Orlando

 

Said's Impact on Arab Intellectuals: Reverberations                     15

of Said's Thought in the Current Debates over Islam,

and US-Muslim/Arab Relations

Laura Rice – Karim Hamdy

 

The ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading                                   25

Said in Hebrew

Ella Shohat

 

Said’s Foucault, or the Desire for Analogy                                   49

John Ochoa

 

Textuality, Theory, (In)fusionism: Reinventing                              57

Said's “Materiality” & “Amateurism”

Ranjan Gosh                

 

Edward Said's “Counterpoint”                                                     67

Kiyoko Magome

 

Resisting the Hegemonic Function of Culture:                             75

Edward Said and the Responsibility of the

Intellectual

Matthew Abraham

 

II. Orientalism and its Discontents                                         83

 

Historiography as a Means for Power: “Otherization”                    85

and Imperialism Through the Writings of Edward Said

Rasha I. Ramzy

 

What Would Said Say? Reflections on Tradition,                         95

Imperialism, and Globalism

Sura P. Rath

 

 “Jewelinthecrown.co.uk”: Orientalism's Strange   58                  111

Persistence in Diasporic South Asian Literature in

Britain

Steven Barfield

 

Latin American Orientalism: from Margin                                   121

to Margin

Hernán G. H. Taboada

 

The Legacy and the Future of Orientalism                                  129

Lidan Lin

 

Occidentalism: Edward Said’s Legacy for the                             145

Occidentalist Imaginary and its Critique

Tamara Silvia Wagner

 

III. Narrating the Postcolonial                                                 155

 

“Nation and Narration”: The English Novel and                            157

Englishness

Sarah Fulford

 

Fish(ing) for Colonial Counter-Narratives in                                 167

the Short Fiction of Paul Bowles 

Robert Ficociello

 

Subject and Citizen: The Ambivalent Identity                              175

in postcolonial Francophone Africa.

Gilbert Doho

 

Was Edward Said Right in Depicting Albert Camus                    187

as an Imperialist Writer?

Nabil Boudraa

 

IV. The Last Sky over Broummana                                        201

 

Edward Said, John Berger, Jean Mohr: Seeking an                    203

Other Optic

John Hawley

 

After the Last Sky: A Liminal Space                                        211

Yifen Beus

 

Other Places: Said's Map of the Middle East.                           221

Salah Hassan

 

Books by Edward Said                                                           229

 

Contributors                                                                          233

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