After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 18319
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108453219
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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0
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- After Said ruminates on the problems and opportunities afforded by Edward Said’s work: its productive and generative capacities as well as its in-built limitations. It aims to capture the essence of Said’s intellectual and political contribution and his extensive impact on postcolonial studies; it also reflects on what comes after Said. How have literary criticism and literary and political theory changed in the light of Said’s field-shaping and multifaceted interventions? The main objective of this volume is to examine Said’s legacy both intensively and extensively: by critically elaborating his core concepts and arguments and by tracing some of their significant after-lives. These include humanism, orientalism, culture and imperialism, postcolonial modernism, class and capitalism, and contrapuntal reading.
After Said is a profoundly interdisciplinary book. As editor, Abu-Manneh structured the volume to examine Said’s wide-ranging academic engagement and intellectual influence and selected contributors from various specialist academic disciplines to account for his multiple fields of intervention. Experts range from literary and cultural studies to sociology and political theory. In the process of revision, Abu-Manneh made sure that contributions address the volume’s theoretical and conceptual concerns in a systematic manner and that they are also written in a comprehensible way easy to understand by non-specialist readers. This entailed researching academic fields beyond Abu-Manneh’s immediate expertise – like imperial history and political philosophy – and reading several drafts of each contribution to ensure clarity and coherence. To reflect the volume’s interdisciplinary concerns, Abu-Manneh also included a “Further Reading” section at the end of the volume which traces key developments in writings on Said – including in literature, culture and theory, in new imperial history, and in political theory. In his own introductory contribution to the volume, Abu-Manneh focused on Said’s political humanism as an overarching theoretical intervention and elaborated on his thought and politics.
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