Paradoxical Citizenship

Silvia Nagy-Zekmi is professor and chair of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Villanova University.

• Chapter 1 Knowledge, Power and Fear: Edward Said and the "Mainstreaming" of Postcolonial Literary ThoughtChapter 2 Said's Impact on Arab Intellectuals: Reverberations of Said's Thought in the Current Debates over Islam and US-Muslim/Arab Relations3 The "Postcolonial" in Translation: Reading Said in Hebrew4 Said's Foucault, or the Places of the Critic5 The Wor(l)d, the Text, and the (In)fusionist6 Edward Said's Counterpoint7 Territorial Ambition: Edward Said's Unmasking of the Intellectuals' Complicity with State Expansion8 Historiography as a Means for Power: "Otherization" and Imperialism Through the Writings of Edward Said9 What Would Said Say? Reflections on Tradition, Imperialism, and Globalism10 "Lewelinthecrown.co.uk": Orientalism's Strange Persistence in British South Asian Writing11 Latin American Orientalism from Margin to Margins12 The Legacy and the Future of Orientalism13 Occidentalism: Edward Said's Legacy for the Occidentalist Imaginary and its Critique14 Nation and Narration: The English Novel and Englishness15 Fish(ing) for Colonial Counter-Narratives in the Language of Post-Colonial Criticism16 Subject and Citizen: Ambivalent Identity in Postcolonial Cameroon17 Was Edward Said Right in Depicting Albert Camus as an Imperialist Writer?18 Edward Said, John Berger, Jean Mohr: Seeking an Other Optic19 After the Last Sky: A Liminal Space20 Other Places: Said's Map of the Middle East

Clearly this is the most comprehensive analysis of Edward Said's work yet compiled, a collection that will open up the full range of Said's impact on the humanities. This book combines a range of investigation with new insights into his work.