After Said - Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century

This book focuses on the problems and opportunities afforded by Edward Said's work and develops a materialist critique of postcolonial studies.

List of contents

1. Said's political humanism: an introduction Bashir Abu-Manneh; 2. Said: birth of the critic Conor McCarthy; 3. The dual legacy of Orientalism Vivek Chibber; 4. Culture and imperialism: errors of a syllabus Seamus Deane; 5. Exile as a political aesthetic Keya Ganguly; 6. Said and the 'worlding' of nineteenth-century fiction Lauren M. E. Goodlad; 7. Said and political theory Jeanne Morefield; 8. Said, postcolonial studies and world literature Joe Cleary; 9. Postcolonial and transnational modernism Dougal McNeill; 10. Political predicaments of exile Joan Cocks; 11. Orientalism today Saree Makdisi; 12. Political economy and the Iraq War: Said and Arrighi Robert Spencer.

About the author

Bashir Abu-Manneh is Reader in Postcolonial Literature and Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent, and author of The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present (Cambridge, 2016) and Fiction of the 'New Statesman', 1913–1939 (2011).

Summary

This book captures the essence of Said's intellectual and political contribution, as well as his extensive impact. It aims to reorient imperial studies back to capital, class, and politics. It will be a key resource for students, graduates and instructors studying postcolonial literary theory and the works of Edward Said.

Product details

• Authors: Bashir Abu-Manneh, EDITED BY BASHIR ABU
• Assisted by: Bashir Abu-Manneh (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108429177
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42917-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: The After Series; After; After; After series, The
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: postcolonial literature