The geocritical legacies of Edward W. Said : spatiality, critical humanism, and comparative literature /

Edward W. Said remains one of the most important literary and cultural critics in the world. A towering figure in postcolonial studies, Said may be equally well regarded for his scholarship in comparative literature, critical theory and intellectual history. Less well known, perhaps, is Said's...

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Other Authors: Tally, Robert T., Jr (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The World, the Text, and the Geocritic; Robert T. Tally Jr. 1. Said, Space, and Biopolitics: Giorgio Agamben's and D.H. Lawrence's States of Exception; Russell West-Pavlov 2. Orient Within, Orient Without: Said's "Hostipitality" towards Arnoldian Culture; Emel Tastekin, 3. Edward W. Said, the Sphere of Humanism, and the Neoliberal University; Jeffrey Hole 4. Back to Beginnings: Reading Between Aesthetics and Politics; Daniel Rosenberg Nutters 5. Revisiting Said's "Secular Criticism": Anarchism, Enabling Ethics, and Oppositional Ethics; Darwin H. Tsen and Charlie Wesley 6. Transnational Identity in Crisis: Re-reading Edward W. Said's Out of Place; Sobia Khan 7. De-Orienting Aesthetic Education; Cameron Bushnell 8. Dangerous Insight: (Not) Seeing Australian Aborigines in the Narrative of James Murrells; Kristine Kelly 9. Exilic Consciousness and Alternative Modernist Geographies in the Work of Olive Schreiner and Katherine Mansfield; Elizabeth Syrkin 10. Mundus Totus Exilium Est: Reflections on the Critic in Exile; Robert T. Tally Jr.