Edward Said and the work of the critic : speaking truth to power / Paul A. Bové, editor. - vi, 317 p. ; 24 cm.

"Boundary 2 book." All but three of the essays were originally published in Boundary 2, summer 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Edward Said talks to Jacqueline Rose -- The panic of the visual: a conversation with Edward W. Said -- Race before racism: the disappearance of the American -- Criticism between opposition and counterpoint -- The matter of language -- In responses begins responsibility: music and emotion -- The sublime lyrical abstractions of Edward W. Said -- Uses of aesthetics: after orientalism -- Edward W. Said and the American public sphere: speaking truth to power -- Sappers in the stacks: colonial archives, land mines, and truth commissions -- Counternarratives, recoveries, refusals -- Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, secular criticism, and the question of minority culture -- Exoticism and orientalism in music: problems for the worldly critic -- Notes -- Index.

0822325225 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822324873 (alk. paper)

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Said, Edward W.


Criticism--History--20th century
Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Politics and literature
Politics and culture

PN51. / E34 2000

801.950904