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Palestine played out
One would hardly want to accuse Edward Said of being a demagogue or even a politician, but his voice is one that certainly deserves to be heard by more people; and as the Arab-Israeli Conflict nears its 50th year, any sane, reasonable person who cares about what is happening in the world - in our world - should pay attention to what this Palestinian exile has to say in his latest book on behalf of his nation and its rightful cause in the face of five decades of dispossession and oppression at the hands of an occupying power. Peace and Its Discontents is a collection of articles that appeared in various weeklies and dailies in the Arab world and the West over a period of two years from September 1993, which saw the announcement and signing of the United States-sponsored Oslo Declaration between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Israeli Government, which we were expected to believe was to usher in an era of peace between Israel and her Arab neighbours. The central theme running through all the 21 articles and the transcript of an interview between an Egyptian journalist and the author is that the Oslo Declaration, far from being an instrument of peace, was an instrument of capitulation in which Yasser Arafat signed away the demands of the Palestinian people for a just resolution to the dispossession of their lands and the usurpation of their right to a state in their homeland by a brutal occupying power.
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The selected works of Edward Said, 1966-2006.
Presents key selections from the works of Edward Said.
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Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature
The three essays constituting this volume were originally published as individual pamphlets by the Field Day Theatre Company, in Derry, Northern Ireland. Each deals with the question of nationalism and the role of cultural production as a force in understanding and analyzing the aftermath of colonization. The authors’ diverse perspectives are demonstrated by the essays’ respective titles: Eagleton, Nationalism: Irony and Commitment; Jameson, Modernism and Imperialism; and Said, Yeats and Decolonization. The essays have implication beyond their immediate topics, bearing upon questions of feminism, decolonization, and modernism to illuminate problems that belong to other groups and regions.
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Said on opera
\"In May of 1997 Edward W. Said delivered the Empson Lectures at Cambridge University under the title 'Authority and Transgression in Opera.' He planned to publish the lectures with Cambridge but never finished the manuscript. Some portions of the lectures were published in journals, about 20 years ago.The lecture typescripts are preserved in the Edward W. Said Papers at Columbia. The Edward W. Said Estate and Wouter Capitain have collaborated on the proposal for this book. The typescripts require minor editing, and an introduction, which Capitain plans to write. The introduction will explain the background of the lectures and position the book within Said's work on music and postcolonial theory. In four case studies on Cosi fan tutte, Fidelio, Les Troyens, and Die Meistersinger, Said deftly renders these operas more problematic and interesting than they have come to seem, thanks to his attention to both the works' historical context and the political possibilities open to contemporary interpreters. He questions the extent to which these operas are predetermined by the 'authority' of their historical context, or whether they instead 'transgress' their initial context and maintain their agency within contemporary society. These questions are central to Said's work at large, including in The World, The Text, and the Critic (1983), Culture and Imperialism (1993), and Humanism and Democratic Criticism (CUP 2004), which analyzes the political context of the arts while also arguing that artworks can occupy a relatively autonomous and potentially subversive position within society. 'Authority and Transgression in Opera' foregrounds these questions about art and society, perhaps more than any of his other books. Said analyzes how these operas negotiate the power structures in which they operate by mirroring their historical social position to the portrayal of authority and transgression in the works themselves. He argues that the historical themes in these operas remain relevant today, and he appreciates stagings that highlight the contemporary resonances in these works\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture
This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said's critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which it is predicated. This distinction is both literal and figurative. It refers, on the one hand, to religious traditions and to secular traditions and, on the other hand, to tropes that extend the meaning and reference of religion and secularism in indeterminate ways. The author takes these tropes as the best way of organizing Said's heterogeneous corpus - from Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, his first book, to Orientalism, his most influential book, to his recent writings on the Palestinian question. The religion-secularism distinction, as an act of imagination and narrative continuity, lies behind Said's cultural criticism, his notion of intellectual responsibility, and his public controversy with Michael Walzer about the meaning and the uses of the Exodus story and about the question of Palestine.
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The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City
The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of
values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values
versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment
to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of
literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic
avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and
envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. The Decline
and Fall of the Lettered City charts the conflicting
universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and
political vanguard. This was also a twilight of literature at the
threshold of the great cultural revolution of the seventies and
eighties, a revolution to which the Cold War indirectly
contributed. In the eighties, civil war and military rule, together
with the rapid development of mass culture and communication
empires, changed the political and cultural map. A long-awaited
work by an eminent Latin Americanist widely read throughout the
world, this book will prove indispensable to anyone hoping to
understand Latin American literature and society. Jean Franco
guides the reader across minefields of cultural debate and
histories of highly polarized struggle. Focusing on literary texts
by García Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Roa Bastos, and Juan Carlos
Onetti, conducting us through this contested history with the
authority of an eyewitness, Franco gives us an engaging overview as
involving as it is moving.
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Unholy Wars
This book examines the events of September 11th 2001, Osama bin Laden's role and the complex working of the Al Qa'ida terror network. This is the classic book on the history of the USA's involvement with Afghanistan that explains the devastating consequences of the alliance between the US government and radical Islam. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the current international crisis.
Cooley marshals a wealth of evidence - from the assassination of Sadat, the destabilisation of Algeria and Chechnya and the emergence of the Taliban, to the bombings of the World Trade Center and the US embassies in Africa. He examines the crucial role of Pakistan’s military intelligence organisation; uncovers China’s involvement and its aftermath; the extent of Saudi financial support; the role of 'America's most wanted man' Osama bin Laden; the BCCI connection; the CIA's cynical promotion of drug traffic in the Golden Crescent; the events in Pakistan since the military coup of October 1999; and, finally, the events of September 11th 2001 and their continuing impact on world affairs.
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