Power, Politics, and Culture: Edited and with an introduction by Gauri Viswanathan - Hardcover

Said, Edward W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375421076 ISBN 13: 9780375421075

Publisher: Pantheon, 2001

Synopsis

Spanning more than thirty years, a collection of twenty-five interviews with the middle Eastern scholar and critic shares his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including politics, literary and cultural criticism, and the Gulf War.

About this title

Review:

"A fascinating, oblique entry into the mind of one whose own writings . . . are a brilliant questioning chronicle of contemporary culture and values." --Nadine Gordimer

"Edward Said [is] arguably the most consequential literary, cultural, and geopolitical critic of our time." --Richard Poirier

"These fascinating and revealing interviews reinforce Edward Said's standing as one of our foremost public intellectuals. His is a democratic and cosmopolitan humanism . . . [that] enlarge[s] our understanding of the world and of ourselves." --Eric Foner

About the Author:

Edward w. Said is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Orientalism (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), Covering Islam, Peace and Its Discontents, The Politics of Dispossession, Culture and Imperialism, Representations of the Intellectual, The Question of Palestine, Out of Place, The Edward Said Reader, and The End of the Peace Process.

GAURI VISWANATHAN is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief&

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375421076
• ISBN 13: 9780375421075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512