A Said Dictionary
Published on 21. February 2012
200 pages
978-1-118-25351-9 (ISBN)
Description
This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical andtheoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural criticEdward W. Said through the crucial terms and concepts central tohis work.
* Compares and contrasts Said's perspective with other keytheorists, such as Derrida, Spivak, Foucault, and Jameson
* Describes the crucial terms and concepts central to Said'swork
* Places the development of Said's work within its historicalcontext
Reviews / Votes
"This book is an excellent introduction to the variety andcomplexity of Said's work (as Radhakrishnan points out, Saidwas not interested in constructing some monolithic system), andwill no doubt be of interest to those more familiar with his worktoo." (Reference Reviews, 1 June 2013) "This just may be the kind of Said that all who hold himin esteem have awaited. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 November 2012) "R. Radhakrishnan's eloquent meditations on the key words and namesof the late Edward W. Said's critical vocabulary contributeimmensely, not only to our understanding of his life-long secularproject, but also to the sustaining of his richly resonant globallegacy." --William V. Spanos, Binghamton University "Compulsively readable, this invaluable book helps explain whySaid is so widely seen as the conscience of his generation. Whileexplaining Said's concepts with lucidity and verve, it also maps atheoretical landscape where a lot is still going on. With a guidelike Radhakrishnan, you feel ready to plunge right in." --Bruce Robbins, Columbia UniversityMore details
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A Said Dictionary
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A Said Dictionary
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Person
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.
Content
List of terms ix
Preface xi
Dictionary 1
Bibliography 159
Index 171
