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Description
Mathieu Courville begins by examining Said's own reflections on his life, before moving on to key debates about Said's work within Religious Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, and his relationship to French critical theorists.
Table of Contents
1. Being and not being like a book: History, memory, and self-understanding
2. The Empire writes back: From Bernard Lewis to Martin Kramer
3. Scholars of religion and the return of the repressed: William D. Hart and Carl Olson
4. An emergent conversation: Work on Said's 'religious' question
5. Theoretical travelogues: A slight return from Foucault back to Fanon and Sartre
6. 'Convergences': 'The other Arab Muslims' and 'the other America'
7. 'The essay as form' of resistance: On the essayistic spirit in Adorno and Said
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendices
Product details
Published | 10 Dec 2009 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9780826437556 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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