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Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics
by Lara SaguisagHistories and criticism of comics note that comic strips published in the Progressive Era were dynamic spaces in which anxieties about race, ethnicity, class, and gender were expressed, perpetuated, and alleviated. The proliferation of comic strip children—white and nonwhite, middle-class and lower class, male and female—suggests that childhood was a subject that fascinated and preoccupied Americans at the turn of the century. Many of these strips, including R.F. Outcault’s Hogan’s Alley and Buster Brown, Rudolph Dirks’s The Katzenjammer Kids and Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland were headlined by child characters. Yet no major study has explored the significance of these verbal-visual representations of childhood. Incorrigibles and Innocents addresses this gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips. Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had a right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation.
An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal (Gender and Culture Series)
by Poulomi SahaIn today’s world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women. The contemporary garment industry—and the labor organizing pushing back—draws on a long history of gendered labor division and exploitation in East Bengal, the historical antecedent of Bangladesh. Yet despite the centrality of women’s labor to anticolonial protest and postcolonial state-building, historiography has struggled with what appears to be its absence from the archive.Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women’s political labor in East Bengal over more than a century, one that suggests new ways to think about textiles and the gendered labors of their making. An Empire of Touch argues that women have articulated—in writing, in political action, in stitching—their own desires in their own terms. They produce narratives beyond women’s empowerment and independence as global and national projects; they refuse critical pronouncements of their own subjugation. Saha follows the historical traces of how women have claimed their own labor, contending that their political commitments are captured in the material objects of their manufacture. Her analysis of the production of historical memory through and by the bodies of women spans British colonialism and American empire, anticolonial nationalism to neoliberal globalization, depicting East Bengal between development economics and postcolonial studies. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.
Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India: Formation Of A Community Through Cultural Practice
by Sharmistha SahaThis book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but also as philosophical queries. It opens up with the discourse around ‘Indian theatre’ that was started by the orientalists in the late 18th century, and which continued till much later. The study specifically focuses on the two major urban centres of colonial India: Bombay and Calcutta of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It discusses different cultural practices in colonial India, including the initiation of ‘Indian theatre’ practices, which resulted in many forms of colonial-native ‘theatre’ by the 19th century; the challenges to this dominant discourse from the ‘swadeshi jatra’ (national jatra/theatre) in Bengal, which drew upon earlier folk and religious traditions and was used as a tool by the nationalist movement; and the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) that functioned from Bombay around the 1940s, which focused on the creation of one national subject – that of the ‘Indian’. The author contextualizes the relevance of the concept of ‘Indian theatre’ in today’s political atmosphere. She also critically analyses the post-Independence Drama Seminar organized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1956 and its relevance to the subsequent organization of ‘Indian theatre’. Many theatre personalities who emerged as faces of smaller theatre committees were part of the seminar which envisioned a national cultural body. This book is an important contribution to the field and is of interest to researchers and students of cultural studies, especially Theatre and Performance Studies, and South Asian Studies.
Staging Creolization: Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean (New World Studies)
by Emily SahakianIn Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and 1990s and soon thereafter traveled to the United States. Sahakian argues that these late-twentieth-century plays by French Caribbean women writers dramatize and enact creolization—the process of cultural transformation through mixing and conflict that occurred in the context of the legacies of slavery and colonialism.Sahakian here theorizes creolization as a performance-based process, dramatized by French Caribbean women’s plays and enacted through their international production and reception histories. The author contends that the syncretism of the plays is not a static, fixed creole aesthetics but rather a dynamic process of creolization in motion, informed by history and based in the African-derived principle that performance is a space of creativity and transformation that connects past, present, and future.
English-Medium Instruction in Turkish Universities: Policies, Practices, and Perceptions (Routledge Focus on English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education)
by Kari SahanIn response to the growing use of English as an international language, the number of English-medium instruction (EMI) programs in higher education has increased. However, decisions to implement EMI programs are often made through top-down policymaking processes with little consideration for the educational issues surrounding language policy changes.This book examines the variation with which EMI is implemented at universities in Turkey through a multilevel empirical investigation of policies, practices, and perceptions. In addition to providing a sociohistorical overview of EMI in Turkey, the book draws on a dataset that includes policy documents, classroom observations, interviews with teachers, and focus group discussions with students. Despite national policies which envision a "one-language-at-a-time" model of EMI education, this book argues that EMI is neither English-only nor English-always in practice. By highlighting the variation with which EMI is implemented at and across Turkish universities, this study illustrates the need for more comprehensive EMI policies and processes aimed at integrating content and language learning in higher education.Implications are discussed with respect to policy planning, program development, and pedagogical support and will be relevant for researchers and postgraduate research students interested in EMI, particularly in the Turkish context.
English as an International Language Education: Critical Intercultural Literacy Perspectives (English Language Education #33)
by Ahmed Sahlane Rosalind PritchardThis volume provides an overview of current issues in English as an International Language (EIL) education and critical intercultural literacy pedagogy. The different chapters are inspired by ‘critical interculturality’ as a decolonial project that seeks to interrogate the structures, conditions, and mechanisms of colonial power relations that still pervade our increasingly globalising postcolonial societies; they tend to perpetuate forms of discrimination such as sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism and linguicism. Divided into five sections, this collection critically examines English Language Teaching textbooks’ integration of intercultural dimensions, the promotion of intercultural literacy in teacher education programs, the management of cultural diversity in multicultural professional/business and educational situations, and the ‘decolonisation’ of the curriculum in various global educational and professional situations. The book presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means of examining the nature of intercultural communication pertaining in EIL varied international contexts. The chapters also reflect a wide diversity of perspectives from local contexts with global relevance and applicability. This book is an indispensable reference for business leaders, international relations stakeholders, education and linguistics students, educationists, textbook designers, teacher trainers and researchers of language and culture, critical pedagogy, multiculturalism studies, TESOL and English as a lingua franca (ELF).
Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History As Culture and Vice Versa
by Marshall SahlinsThucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history--including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a groundbreaking new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history. Sahlins begins by confronting Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War with an analogous "Polynesian War," the fight for the domination of the Fiji Islands (1843-55) between a great sea power (like Athens) and a great land power (like Sparta). Sahlins draws parallels between the conflicts with an eye to their respective systems of power and sovereignty as well as to Thucydides' alternation between individual (Pericles, Themistocles) and collective (the Athenians, the Spartans) actors in the making of history. Characteristic of most histories ever written, this alternation between the agency of "Great Men" and collective entities leads Sahlins to a series of incisive analyses ranging in subject matter from Bobby Thomson's "shot heard round the world" for the 1951 Giants to the history-making of Napoleon and certain divine kings to the brouhaha over Elián Gonzalez. Finally, again departing from Thucydides, Sahlins considers the relationship between cultural order and historical contingency through the recounting of a certain royal assassination that changed the course of Fijian history, a story of fratricide and war worthy of Shakespeare. In this most convincing presentation yet of his influential theory of culture, Sahlins experiments with techniques for mixing rich narrative with cultural explication in the hope of doing justice at once to the actions of persons and the customs of people. And he demonstrates the necessity of taking culture into account in the creation of history--with apologies to Thucydides, who too often did not.
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
by Marshall SahlinsHawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation
Great Indian Epics: International Perspectives
by Udayanath Sahoo Shobha Rani DashThis volume brings together a number of seminal studies presented at the International Conference on Great Indian Epics held in February 2019 at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi by scholars from various parts of the world. Each article adds a new dimension to the subject with historical scholarship and critical interpretation, reflecting comprehensiveness, unity, clarity and rightness of perception. This definitive work adds to our knowledge of the epics and their infinite influence.Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)
by Arielle SaiberGiordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between science and literature, or more specifically, between the spatial paradigm of geometry and that of language. Arielle Saiber examines how, to invite what Bruno believed to be an infinite universe-its qualities and vicissitudes-into the world of language, Bruno forged a system of 'figurative' vocabularies: number, form, space, and word. This verbal and symbolic system in which geometric figures are seen to underlie rhetorical figures, is what Saiber calls 'geometric rhetoric.' Through analysis of Bruno's writings, Saiber shows how Bruno's writing necessitates a crafting of space, and is, in essence, a lexicon of spatial concepts. This study constitutes an original contribution both to scholarship on Bruno and to the fields of early modern scientific and literary studies. It also addresses the broader question of what role geometry has in the formation of any language and literature of any place and time.
Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
by Arielle SaiberMeasured Words investigates the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. Arielle Saiber explores the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers: Leon Battista Alberti’s treatis on cryptography, Luca Pacioli’s ideal proportions for designing Roman capital letters, Niccolò Tartaglia’s poem embedding his solution to solving cubic equations, and Giambattista Della Porta’s curious study on the elements of geometric curves. Although they came from different social classes and practiced the mathematical and literary arts at differing levels of sophistication, they were all guided by a sense that there exist deep ontological and epistemological bonds between computational and verbal thinking and production. Their shared view that a network or continuity exists between the arts yielded extraordinary results. Through measuring their words, literally and figuratively, they are models of what the very best interdisciplinary work can offer us.
Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography
by Edward SaidEdward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and Africa, projects political dimensions in his work that mirror a colonialist preoccupation with "civilizing" native peoples. Said then suggests that this dimension should be considered when reading all of Western literature. First published in 1966, Said's critique of the Western self's struggle with modernity signaled the beginnings of his groundbreaking work, Orientalism, and remains a cornerstone of postcolonial studies today.
Beginnings: Intention and Method
by Edward W. SaidThis reissued classic traces the ramifications and diverse understandings of the concept of "Beginning" in history and offers valuable insights into the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism.
Cubriendo el islam: Cómo los medios de comunicación y los expertos determinan nuestra visión del resto del mundo
by Edward W. SaidUna obra más necesaria que nunca para reconsiderar la visión que recibimos del islam. Desde la crisis de los rehenes en Irán hasta la guerra del Golfo y el primer atentado con bomba en el World Trade Center, la mayoría de los medios de comunicación estadounidenses han retratado el islam como una entidad monolítica equivalente a terrorismo y a fanatismo religioso. Al mismo tiempo algunos países islámicos lo invocan para justificar regímenes no democráticos y a menudo represivos. En esta obra clásica, revisada posteriormente por el autor, Edward W. Said examina el origen y la repercusión de las imágenes del islam en los medios de comunicación y revela los objetivos ocultos y la distorsión de los hechos que subyacen incluso en gran parte de los artículos más «objetivos» sobre el mundo islámico. Said demuestra cómo algunos de los supuestos expertos sobre el islam son en muchas ocasiones especialistas improvisados y periodistas que van a países cuyo idioma, literatura, historia y cultura desconocen, o analistas aficionados a las generalizaciones que, a veces sin saberlo, caen en el prejuicio, la caricatura y el estereotipo. Con un nuevo prefacio del hijo del autor, Wadie Said, y una introducción del traductor, Bernardino León Gross, este libro se convierte en nuestros días en una obra más necesaria que nunca para reconsiderar la visión que recibimos del islam.
Cultura e imperialismo (Colección Argumentos/anagrama Ser. #Vol. 187)
by Edward W. SaidPublicada originalmente en 1993, Cultura e imperialismo es una obra indispensable que restablece el diálogo entre la literatura y la vida, y permite comprender uno de los procesos históricos y culturales más complejos de la modernidad. En el siglo XIX y principios del XX, mientras las grandes potencias se esforzaban en construir y mantener imperios que se extendían desde Australia hasta las islas del Caribe, Occidente fue el protagonista incontestable de un esplendor cultural que vio nacer obras maestras tales como la Aida de Verdi, Mansfield Park de Jane Austen, El corazón de las tinieblas de Conrad o El extranjero de Camus, por citar solo algunas. Con todo, y a pesar de la magnitud del fenómeno imperialista que caracterizó esa época, la mayoría de críticos literarios y culturales nunca prestaron la suficiente atención a su influencia sobre la cultura. Mediante un brillante análisis, Edward W. Said examina estas obras junto con la de escritores de la talla de W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe o Salman Rushdie, para demostrar como la periferia sujeta al orden impuesto por la metrópoli supo crear su propia cultura vigorosa, opositora y resistente. Críticas:«Obra imprescindible.»José María Ridao, El País «La originalidad y la eficacia de este estudio se basan en el método. Said trabaja sobre las obras individuales, leyéndolas primero como grandiosos productos de la imaginación creadora e interpretativa, y luego mostrándolas dentro de la relación entre cultura e imperio.»Elvira Huelbes, El Mundo «Pivote entre dos mundos, solo Said ha sido capaz de advertir que la apacible rutina de Mansfield Park, la mansión en la novela de Jane Austen, se mantiene con el trabajo esclavo de una isla del Caribe. Sin imperio, proclama Said, no existiría la novela clásica europea tal como la conocemos.»Terry Eagleton, The Guardian «La crítica literaria que intenta tender puentes entre el arte y la política tiene que aprender mucho, si no todo, de este impresionante diálogo de Said consigo mismo.»Camille Paglia, The Washington Post
Elaboraciones musicales: Ensayos sobre la música clásica
by Edward W. SaidEnsayo sobre música y sociedad, meditación sobre diferentes movimientos artísticos y sus influencias, Elaboraciones musicales es una invitación a comprender la música clásica y una aproximación, de la mano de un maestro, a entender la creación como expresión de lo real. Considerada una de las grandes creaciones intelectuales de la humanidad, la música es un rico lenguaje artístico que expresa deseos y anhelos al tiempo que refleja las condiciones materiales y el contexto cultural en el cual se concibe. Esta es una de las conclusiones que se desprenden de la lectura de esta penetrante obra, unos brillantes textos que centran su atención en la música clásica occidental. En esta reflexión sobre la música como disciplina humanística y sus procesos de elaboración, el profesor Said propone un análisis amplio de las partituras, los músicos y sus épocas, una mirada que englobe todos los elementos posibles, de la misma manera que el lector o el crítico hacen a la hora de enfrentarse a un texto literario o una obra de arte. Beethoven y la Ilustración o Wagner y la filosofía de Schopenhauer, por citar solo dos ejemplos, son algunos de los casos estudiados, cruciales momentos históricos que muestran con claridad cómo las relaciones entre la música y su entorno son indiscutibles.
Freud y los no europeos (Polirritmos Ser.)
by Edward W. SaidLa controvertida y brillante conferencia que Edward Said pronunció en el Museo Freud de Londres sobre el profundo significado que Moisés y el monoteísmo, según Freud, tienen para la política actual en Oriente Medio. Censurada y finalmente prohibida por el Instituto Freud de Viena, esta controvertida y brillante conferencia pudo ser pronunciada en el Museo Freud de Londres. Aún parecen escucharse los ecos de la inquebrantable voz de Said. El autor presenta en este ensayo una aproximación multidisciplinar, nutriéndose de fuentes procedentes de la literatura, la arqueología y la teoría social, para explorar el profundo significado que Moisés y el monoteísmo, según Sigmund Freud, tienen para la política actual en los países de Oriente Medio. El ensayo, que muestra el permanente interés de Said por la obra de Freud y la influencia de la misma en su propio trabajo, plantea que la tesis de Freud al afirmar que Moisés fue un egipcio socava la idea misma de identidad pura y mantiene que la identidad no puede pensarse ni entenderse sin el reconocimiento previo de los límites que son inherentes a ella. Said sugiere que, desde esta perspectiva, ese sentido de identidad aún no resuelto podría, de haber tomado cuerpo en la realidad política, haber formado una buena base para lograr la comprensión mutua de judíos y palestinos. En lugar de eso, la imparable marcha de Israel dirigida al establecimiento de un estado exclusivamente judío niega cualquier percepción de un pasado más complejo que incluye a ambos.
Fuera de lugar: Memorias
by Edward W. SaidUna historia extraordinaria sobre el exilio narrada por uno de los intelectuales más importantes de nuestro tiempo. En Fuera de lugar Edward W. Said ofrece un fascinante relato del desarrollo vital de un crítico y pensador a caballo entre Oriente y Occidente. Fuera de lugar no es solamente un enfrentamiento dramático con los fantasmas de una infancia y la crónica de un mundo que ya no existe, es fundamentalmente una recapitulación de los temas que han ocupado la vida de uno de los intelectuales más importantes de este siglo: el destierro forzoso, la desposesión y, en última instancia, el exilio interior. Escritas a la luz de una grave enfermedad y a partir de un regreso traumático a los lugares de la infancia, estas memorias duras y polémicas ofrecen una perspectiva nueva sobre una vida y una obra marcadas desde el principio por la negativa imperiosa e inagotable a rendirse. Reseña:«Fuera delugar es un acto profundamente conmovedor de reivindicación y comprensión, el retrato de una educación transcultural, y a menudo dolorosa, escrito con una intensidad maravillosa y una honestidad implacable. Su lectura permite conocer a su familia y su juventud con la profundidad con la que conocemos a los personajes de la literatura, y entender de forma íntima e inolvidable lo que ha significado ser palestino en el último medio siglo.»Salman Rushdie
Fuera de lugar
by Edward W. SaidEn Fuera de lugar Edward Said ofrece un fascinante relato del desarrollo vital de un crítico y pensador a caballo entre Oriente y Occidente. Fuera de lugar no es solamente un enfrentamiento dramático con los fantasmas de una infancia y la crónica de un mundo que ya no existe, es fundamentalmente una recapitulación de los temas que han ocupado la vida de unos de los intelectuales más importantes de este siglo: el destierro forzoso, la desposesión y, en última instancia, el exilio interior. Escritas a la luz de una grave enfermedad y a partir de un regreso traumático a los lugares de la infancia, estas memorias duras y polémicas ofrecen una perspectiva nueva sobre una vida y una obra marcadas desde el principio por la negativa imperiosa e inagotable a rendirse.«Fuera de lugar es un acto intensamente conmovedor de reivindicación y comprensión, el retrato de una educación transcultural, y amenudo dolorosa, escrito con una intensidad maravillosa y una honestidad implacable. Su lectura permite conocer a su familia y su juventud con la profundidad con la que conocemos a los personajes de la literatura, y entender de forma íntima e inolvidable lo que ha significado ser palestino en el último medio siglo.»SALMAN RUSHDIE
Humanismo y crítica democrática: La responsabilidad pública de escritores e intelectuales
by Edward W. SaidUna defensa apasionada de la educación humanista y los valores democráticos. La educación humanista tradicional -sostiene Said- lleva mucho tiempo siendo atacada por los tecnócratas de la cultura y la política que desean un cambio profundo en la orientación de los estudios y, por extensión, en la forma de entender e interpretar el mundo. Siguiendo este razonamiento, el celebrado autor de Orientalismo expone en esta obra sus razones para seguir apostando por una forma democrática de humanismo, una manera diversa de entender la educación que incorpore al desarrollo cultural un proyecto amplio de emancipación social. Defensor apasionado de la educación humanista y de los valores democráticos frente a los excesos consumistas de la sociedad contemporánea y el pensamiento neoliberal, Edward W. Said propone un diálogo fluido y ágil entre las diferentes tradiciones culturales como estrategia necesaria para revitalizar las denostadashumanidades, con el fin de que la cultura se acerque cada vez más al hombre y a sus ideales. Las palabras, dice el profesor Said, son agentes vitales, imprescindibles, para el cambio histórico y político, al tiempo que la lectura, entendida como aprendizaje, nos ayuda a ser mejores y a cuestionar, desmontar y reformular el mundo constantemente. Reseñas: «Edward W. Said nos ayuda a comprender quiénes somos y qué debemos pensar si aspiramos a ser actores morales y no sirvientes del poder.»Noam Chomsky «Said es una brillante y única amalgama de profesor, esteta y activista político que desafía y estimula nuestro pensamiento en todas las áreas.»The Washington Post «Edward W. Said es uno de los principales pensadores de esta época.»The New York Observer
Música al límite: Tres décadas de ensayos y artículos musicales
by Edward W. SaidLos mejores textos de Edward Said sobre música, una de sus grandes pasiones. Música al límite reúne lo mejor de tres décadas de reflexiones de Edward Said sobre la música, una de sus grandes pasiones. Abarcando una gran variedad de compositores e intérpretes, Said analiza su contexto social y político, y ofrece perspectivas agudas y a menudo sorprendentes. Reflexiona sobre la censura de Wagner en Israel; la relación entre la música y el feminismo; y las obras de Beethoven, Bruckner, Rossini, Schumann o Stravinski, entre otros. Siempre elocuente, revelador y profundo, Música al límite refuerza la reputación de Said como uno de los intelectuales de referencia del siglo XX. Reseñas:«Hay pocos capaces de lograr con sus palabras que la música ilumine el mundo de aquellos que la crean y la escuchan. Said es uno de ellos.»Daily Telegraph «La brillante elocuencia de los escritos de Said nos recuerdaque con su muerte prematura hemos perdido a uno de nuestros más distinguidos críticos musicales.»Maynard Solomon «Sus textos sobre música e interpretación musical son, como mínimo, entretenidos e instructivos, siempre expresados con gran elegancia lingüística y, en el mejor de los casos, brillantes, originales e ingeniosos, cuajados de revelaciones inesperadas que solo él podía desvelar.»Daniel Barenboim «Edward Said era un apasionado de la música y poseía la rara capacidad de escribir sobre ella para el gran público con una inteligencia lúcida y penetrante.»Times Literary Supplement
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
by Edward W. SaidIn this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet, Mozart, Lampedusa, Euripides, Cavafy, and Mann, among others. He uncovers the conflicts and complexity that often distinguish artistic lateness, resulting in works that stood in direct contrast to what was popular at the time and were forerunners of what was to come in each artist's discipline-works of true genius. Eloquent and impassioned, brilliantly reasoned and revelatory, On Late Style is Edward Said's own great last work.From the Trade Paperback edition.ion." He also writes about Theodor Adorno and about Glenn Gould, who chose to stop performing, thereby creating his own form of lateness. Said makes clear that most of the works discussed are rife with deep conflict and an almost impenetrable complexity. In fact, he feels that lateness is often "a form of exile." These works frequently stood in direct contrast to what was popular at the time, but they were forerunners of what was to come in each artist's particular discipline--works of true genius.Eloquent and impassioned, brilliantly reasoned and revelatory, On Late Style is Edward Said's own great last work.From the Hardcover edition.
The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with David Barsamian
by Edward W. SaidEdward W. Said, raised in Jerusalem, is interviewed here on a range of subjects: from V.S. Naipaul's and Joseph Conrad's depictions of colonialism and empire in their novels; to the links between the Palestinian and South African struggles.
Poder, política y cultura
by Edward W. SaidUna compilación de las mejores entrevistas a Edward W. Said y la incursión definitiva en la mente de uno de los literatos más notorios de nuestro tiempo. Edward W. Said fue uno de los grandes intelectuales del siglo XX. La agudeza de sus reflexiones y la profundidad con la que veía el mundo marcan profundamente una obra que posee el poder de hallar respuestas en los sitios más inusuales. La pasión de Said por la cultura y las civilizaciones de Oriente y Occidente se transmite con un ímpetu extraordinario en este volumen, compuesto por 28 entrevistas que abordan temas tan diferentes como son la música, la historia, la política o la literatura. Desde Palestina hasta Pavarotti, pasando por el colonialismo y la acción política, Edward W. Said reflexiona sobre las figuras de Austen, Beckett, Conrad, Rushdie, Bloom y Foucault, entre muchos otros, y nos invita a perdernos en los entresijos su mente. Una invitación sin precedentes a perdernos en los entresijos su mente. Reseñas:«Una incursión en la mente de un hombre cuyos textos constituyen una crónica brillante, que cuestiona los valores y la cultura contemporáneos.»Nadine Gordimer «Esta colección de entrevistas es fascinante; manifiesta a la perfección las introspecciones paradójicas y las ambigüedades profundas del autor y, en el proceso, se nos presenta el retrato -que resulta impactante por su timidez tan natural? de un personaje tan interesante como imprescindible.»A.C.Grayling, Indepdendent on Sunday «Brillante y apasionado, de una honestidad arrolladora y una lucidez firme.»Terry Eagleton, New Statesman «Esta recopilación sirve a modo de biografía intelectual; leer entrevistas es leer la vida de un hombre a través de las personas que le dirigen las preguntas. Y es difícil pensar en cualquier otro literato cuya experiencia pudiera plasmarse de esta forma en semejante obra.»Scotsman
Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said
by Edward W. SaidEdward Said has long been considered one of the world's most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture, a collection of interviews from the last three decades. In these twenty-eight interviews, Said addresses everything from Palestine to Pavarotti, from his nomadic upbringing under colonial rule to his politically active and often controversial adulthood, and reflects on Austen, Beckett, Conrad, Naipaul, Mahfouz, and Rushdie, as well as on fellow critics Bloom, Derrida, and Foucault. The passion Said feels for literature, music, history, and politics is powerfully conveyed in this indispensable complement to his prolific life's work.