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Cultural readings of imperialism : Edward Said and the gravity of history
- Title
- Cultural readings of imperialism : Edward Said and the gravity of history / edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson, Benita Parry, and Judith Squires.
- Publication
- New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
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- Description
- 304 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- In this book of essays, the contributors, informed by Said's wide-ranging scholarship, engage with post-coloniality, literature and philosophy. This is the first collection to expand and elucidate the work of Said and it matches his critical skill and insight over an interdisciplinary field of enquiry.
- Subjects
- Note
- Chiefly papers presented at a conference held Mar. 1994 at Warwick University; two other papers were originally presented at a conference held in Jan. 1994 at the University of Bristol.
- Originally published: London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1997.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Transnationalism and the alleged death of the nation state / Neil Lazarus -- Sites of resistance in the global economy / Masao Miyoshi -- Secularism, elitism, progress and other transgressions / Bruce Robbins -- Columbus, Palestine and Arab Jews / Ella Shohat -- White skin, Black masks / Bryan Cheyette -- Hybridism and the ethnicity of the English / Robert Young -- Secular criticism and the politics of religious dissent / Gauri Viswanathan -- The West and its others / Bhikhu Parekh -- Identity and violence / David Wood -- Philosophy's Paradoxical Parochialism / Robert Bernasconi -- Narrating imperialism / Benita Parry -- Anna Maria Falconbridge and Sierra Leone: The reality of a coloniser / Moira Ferguson -- 'Africa' and cultural translation: Reading difference / Kadiatu Kanneh -- Gendering imperial culture / Laura Chrisman.
- ISBN
- 0312176414
- 0312176422 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 97018542
- OCLC
- 36842411
- ocm36842411
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries