Edward Said

Zusatztext 'A book that at one and the same time can both introduce and challenge! a commendable combination.' - African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific! Review and Newsletter Informationen zum Autor Bill Ashcroft is a founding exponent of post-colonial theory! co-author of The Empire Writes Back! the first text to examine systematically the field of post-colonial studies. He is Chair of the School of English at the University of Hong Kong! on leave from the University of New South Wales.Pal Ahluwalia is Pro Vice Chancellor of the Division of Education! Arts and Social Sciences and the Director for the Centre for Post-Colonial Studies! University of Southern Australia. He is the editor of three Routledge journals! Social Identities! African Identities and Sikh Formations. Zusammenfassung Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism, this new edition of a popular guide explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Why Said? Key Ideas 1. Worldliness: the text 2. Worldliness: the critic 3. Orientalism 4. Culture as imperialism 5. Palestine 6. Said’s Late Style After Said Further Reading

Product details

• Authors: Pal Ahluwalia, Pal (University of South Australia) Ahluwalia, Ahluwalia Pal, Bill Ashcroft, Bill (University of New South Wales Ashcroft, Bill/ Ahluwalia Ashcroft
• Assisted by: Robert Eaglestone (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2008
• EAN: 9780415476874
• ISBN: 978-0-415-47687-4
• No. of pages: 185
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 204 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers; Routledge Critical Thinkers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory