Edward W. Said and Postcolonial Theory

Biographical Materials

• Said's Liminal Intellectual as Autobiographical

Works

• Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography.
• Beginnings: Intention and Method. New York: Basic Books.
• Orientalism. New York: Pantheon: 1977.
• The World, The Text, and the Critic
• Representations of the Intellectual.
• The Politics of Dispossession.
• Culture and Imperialism.

Cultural and Political Contexts

• Relations to other theorists
• Righting Said's Palestinian Revisionism
• Factual Inaccuracies in Said's comments on Vanity Fair

Themes

• Edward W. Said's "Politics of Secular Interpretation"--an introduction
• Erich Auerbach: the Critic in Exile
• Said's "Liminal Intellectual"
• Bruce Robbins on Said's "Voyage In"
• Problematizing Said's Exilic Category
• Problematizing the Exilic: Temporality and Historical Specificity
• Problematizing the Exilic: Eurocentrism and Elitism
• The Ambiguity of Counter-Authority in the Liminal Intellectual's Struggle for Decolonization
• Said on "Contrapuntalism" and Exile
• The "Overscale Images" of the World System Map
• Literary Identity and Re-Configurations of Cultural Nationalism
• Said's Orientalism Pro and Con
• Edward W. Said on Orientalist Scholarship
• Three Forms of Orientalism
• Latent and Blatant Orientalism
• Contra Edward W. Said's Definition of the Orient
• Anwar Abdel Malek -- a Major Inspiration for Said's Conception of Orientalism

Imagery, Symbol, Metaphor, and Trope in Said's Writing

• Liminality
• The voyage in
• Exile

Bibliography and Related Web Resources

• Bibliography
• Web Resources