Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany and European Research Fellow in London. He is published in journals such as the Oxford Literary Review, History and Theory, Nineteenth Century Prose, Rethinking History, Storia della Storiographia, Angelaki and others. Among his many books include (In)fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits (2006) and Globalizing Dissent (Routledge, 2009).

• Foreword Benita Parry. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Section A 1. "A Roomy Place Full of Possibility": Said’s Orientalism and the Literary Nicholas Harrison 2. Edward Said and Roland Barthes: Criticism versus Essayism. Or: Roads and Meetings Missed Andy Stafford 3. Derrida and Said: Ships that Pass in the Night Caroline Rooney 4. Said .. Bloom …. Vico Graham Allen 5. The Materiality and Ideality of Text: Said and Ricoeur Karl Simms. Section B 6. "The Southern Question" and Said’s Geographical Critical Consciousness. Shaobo Xie 7. Fellow Travellers and Homeless Souls: Said’s Critical Marxism Ross Abbinnett 8. Edward Said and the Interplay of Music, History, and Ideology Derek B. Scott 9. Edward Said and (the Postcolonial Occlusion of) Gender Elleke Boehmer 10. Reading Orientalism in Istanbul: Edward Said and Orhan Pamuk Kate Teltscher 11. On Late Style: Edward Said’s Humanism Pal Ahluwalia. Section C 12. Autobiography and Exile: Edward Said’s Out of Place Linda Anderson 13. Edward Said, American International Policy and War on Terror Taieb Belghazi 14. Representations of the Intellectual: the Historian as ‘Outsider’ Ranjan Ghosh. Contributors. Index.