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