Edward Said and the question of subjectivity /

"Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity explores the articulated and implicated notions of subjectivity in the writings of Edward Said, one of the forthright public intellectuals of our times. The work further analyses the shift in his intellectual trajectory towards a new humanism and dw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pannian, Prasad, 1974- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:	Said, Edward W. > Criticism and interpretation. Said, Edward W. > Political and social views. Subjectivity. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory. PHILOSOPHY > Political. Said, Edward W. Political and social views. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / by H. Aram Veeser
Introduction: Edward Said and the politics of subjectivity
Orient, Occident, and the constitution of subjectivity
The subject in overlapping territories and intertwined histories
Politics of exile, act of memory, and recuperation of the subject
Intellectuals as subjects of action in the age of New Humanism
A shift in intellectual trajectory: the Marxist connection
Conclusion: towards a Saidian paradigm.