After Said
Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century

This book focuses on the problems and opportunities afforded by Edward Said's work and develops a materialist critique of postcolonial studies.

Bashir Abu-Manneh (Edited by)

9781108429177, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 December 2018

232 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.46 kg

'… an important, meticulously researched model for postcolonial and comparative cultural/literary studies.' Bryant Scott, Houston Review Of Books

By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. This volume explores the problems and opportunities afforded by Said's work: its productive and generative capacities as well as its in-built limitations. After Said captures the essence of Said's intellectual and political contribution and his extensive impact on postcolonial studies. It examines his legacy by critically elaborating his core concepts and arguments. Among the issues it tackles are humanism, Orientalism, culture and imperialism, exile and the contrapuntal, realism and postcolonial modernism, world literature, Islamophobia, and capitalism and the political economy of empire. It is an excellent resource for students, graduates and instructors studying postcolonial literary theory and the works of Said.

1. Said's political humanism: an introduction Bashir Abu-Manneh
2. Said: birth of the critic Conor McCarthy
3. The dual legacy of Orientalism Vivek Chibber
4. Culture and imperialism: errors of a syllabus Seamus Deane
5. Exile as a political aesthetic Keya Ganguly
6. Said and the 'worlding' of nineteenth-century fiction Lauren M. E. Goodlad
7. Said and political theory Jeanne Morefield
8. Said, postcolonial studies and world literature Joe Cleary
9. Postcolonial and transnational modernism Dougal McNeill
10. Political predicaments of exile Joan Cocks
11. Orientalism today Saree Makdisi
12. Political economy and the Iraq War: Said and Arrighi Robert Spencer.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: post-colonial literature [DSBH5], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literary theory [DSA]