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Synopsis
This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W. Said through the crucial terms and concepts central to his work.
- Compares and contrasts Said's perspective with other key theorists, such as Derrida, Spivak, Foucault, and Jameson
- Describes the crucial terms and concepts central to Said's work
- Places the development of Said's work within its historical context
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About the Author
R. Radhakrishnan is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Diasporic Mediations (1996), Theory in an Uneven World (Blackwell, 2003), Between Identity and Location: The Cultural Politics of Theory (2007), History, the Human, and the World Between (2008), and editor of Theory as Variation (2007), Transnational South Asians: The Making of a Neo-Diaspora (with Susan Koshy, 2008), and Theory after Derrida: Essays in Critical Praxis (with Kailash Baral, 2009). His essays have appeared in a wide range of international journals and collecitons. Translator of contemporary Tamil fiction into English, he is also the author of a volume of poems in Tamil.
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The work of Edward W. Said, one of the key theorists and cultural critics of the twentieth century, has been continually misunderstood and misappropriated by readers from a range of ideological standpoints. This engaging new book maps out Said's critical and theoretical world using the key terms and concepts that he utilized in his work and examines how he molded his vocabulary to meet the needs of the changing world around him.
Original and creative, Said brought his perspective to bear on the existing critical idiom and made an indelible impression on it in both academic and public arenas. He was able to successfully combine the erudition of the specialist and the transparent accountability of a public intellectual committed to humanity at large. Analysing the ways in which he interacted with and differed from his contemporary theorists and exploring his lasting influence, this interpretive dictionary endeavours to do justice to the full scope of his work and his inimitable legacy.
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The work of Edward W. Said, one of the key theorists and cultural critics of the twentieth century, has been continually misunderstood and misappropriated by readers from a range of ideological standpoints. This engaging new book maps out Said's critical and theoretical world using the key terms and concepts that he utilized in his work and examines how he molded his vocabulary to meet the needs of the changing world around him.
Original and creative, Said brought his perspective to bear on the existing critical idiom and made an indelible impression on it in both academic and public arenas. He was able to successfully combine the erudition of the specialist and the transparent accountability of a public intellectual committed to humanity at large. Analysing the ways in which he interacted with and differed from his contemporary theorists and exploring his lasting influence, this interpretive dictionary endeavours to do justice to the full scope of his work and his inimitable legacy.
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