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A distinguished panel of contributors assess and expand Edward Said's many contributions to the study of colonialism, imperialism and representation that have marked his career-long struggle to end conflict and further the effort to build civilizati
List of contents
Introduction / Paul A. Bove 1
Edward Said talks to Jacqueline Rose / Jacqueline Rose 9
The panic of the visual: a conversation with Edward Said / W. J. T. Mitchell 31
Race before racism: the disappearance of the American / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 51
Criticism between opposition and counterpoint / Jonathan Arac 66
The matter of language / Terry Cochran 78
In responses begins responsibility: music and emotion / Lindsay Waters 97
The sublime lyrical abstractions of Edward W. Said / Jim Merod 114
Uses of aesthetics: after orientalism / Kojin Karatani 139
Edward W. Said and the American public sphere: speaking truth to power / Rashid I. Khalidi 152
Sappers in the stacks: colonial archives, land mines, and truth commissions / Barbara Harlow 165
Counternarratives, recoveries, refusals / Mustapha Marrouchi 187
Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, secular criticism, and the question of minority culture / Aamir R. Mufti 229
Exoticism and orientalism in music: problems for the worldly critic / Ralph P. Locke 257
Notes 283
Index 313
About the author
Paul A. Bové is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Summary
Assesses various aspects of Edward Said's work - his contributions to postcolonial theory, his work on racism and ethnicity, his aesthetics and his resistance to the aestheticization of politics, his concepts of figuration, his assessment of the role of the exile in a metropolitan culture, and his work on music and the visual arts.
