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Journal Article
Said's Worldliness
2020
Overview
This paper may anger Said traditionalists since I argue here that Said was a globalizing capitalist. Said--unlike some of his academic peer group, who critiqued him--accepted capitalism as the primary engine of globalization. The worldliness of his literary theory has closer ties to globalized capital than have race-and-identity postcolonial theories of globality. Said's worldliness is a family inheritance from Said's father, a mover and a shaker who internationalized a branch of trade in Egypt and made tons of money there. Unlike his son Edward, the senior Said had no interest in politics or the liberation of Palestine. Nonetheless, his interest in global networks of trade was decisive in forming his son's interest in global networks of ideas, power, and opinion. Looking at the young Said's formation, one has to wonder: How could a spoiled, rich, only son of a patriarchal family emerge as an edgy pioneer of liberationist energies and radical theories?
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University of Nebraska Press
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