Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction Emancipation and Representation 1
5. 1. Affiliating with Edward Said 23
6. Part One. On Colony and Aesthetics
7. 2. Edward Said Remembered on September 11, 2004: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 53
8. 3. Beginnings Again 60
9. 4. Side by Side: The Other Is Not Mute 72
10. 5. Edward Said and Anthropology 86
11. 6. The Critic and the Public 102
12. 7. Affiliating Edward Said Closer to Home: Reading Postcolonial Women’s Texts 121
13. 8. Translating Heroism: Locating Edward Said on Ahdaf Soueif ’s The Map of Love 142
14. 9. Edward Said and the Poetry of Decolonization 159
15. 10. Edward Said in Contemporary Arabic Culture 170
16. 11. “Long, Languorous, Repetitious Line”: Edward Said’s Critique of Arab Popular Culture 191
17. 12. Edward Said and Polyphony 204
18. Part Two. Palestine, Israel, and Zionism
19. 13. The Arab/Jewish Counterpoint: An Interview with Daniel Barenboim 229
20. 14. Speaking Truth to Power: On Edward Said and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle 247
21. 15. Edward Said and the Palestine Question 280
22. 16. Representation and Liberation: From Orientalism to the Palestinian Crisis 291
23. 17. Said and the Palestinian Diaspora: A Personal Reflection 304
24. 18. The Question of Zionism: Continuing the Dialogue 314
25. 19. Edward Said’s Impact on Post-Zionist Critique in Israel 321
26. 20. The “Postcolonial” in Translation Reading Said in Hebrew 333
27. 21. ExileWith/OutGod: A Jewish Commentary inMemory of Edward Said 354
28. Part Three. The Intellectual at a Crossroads
29. 22. The Incalculable Loss: Conversations with Noam Chomsky 369
30. 23. “Contented Homeland Peace”: The Motif of Exile in Edward Said 389
31. 24. A New “Copernican” Revolution: Said’s Critique of Metaphysics and Theology 414
32. 25. Edward Said and the Possibilities of Humanism 431
33. 26. The Language of the Unrequited: Memory, Aspiration, and Antagonism in theUtopian Imagination of Edward Said 448
34. 27. Between Humanism and Late Style 462
35. 28. Secular Divination: Edward Said’s Humanism 490
36. 29. Countercurrents and Tensions in Said’s Critical Practice 499
37. Contributors 513
38. Index 521