Background
Said, Edward W. was born on November 1, 1935 in Jerusalem, Palestine. Son of Wadie A. and Hilda (Musa) Said.
( Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal...)
Edward 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.
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( A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern th...)
A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism. Distinguishing between "origin," which is divine, mythical, and privileged, and "beginning," which is secular and humanly produced, Said traces the ramifications and diverse understandings of the concept of beginning through history. A beginning is a first step in the intentional production of meaning and the production of difference from preexisting traditions. It authorizes subsequent texts--it both enables them and limits what is acceptable. Drawing on the insights of Vico, Valery, Nietzsche, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Husserl, and Foucault, Said recognizes the novel as the major attempt in Western literary culture to give beginnings an authorizing function in experience, art, and knowledge. Scholarship should see itself as a beginning--as a uniting of theory and practice. Said's insistence on a criticism that is humane and socially responsible is what makes Beginnings a book about much more than writing: it is about imagination and action as well as the constraints on freedom and invention that come from human intention and the method of its fulfillment.
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(He traces this idea through the late-19th and early-20th ...)
He traces this idea through the late-19th and early-20th centuries - to Freud's discoveries - and goes on to explore the question of beginnings in critical discourse and the work of the French structuralists.
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(A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thou...)
A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism. Distinguishing between "origin," which is divine, mythical, and privileged, and "beginning," which is secular and humanly produced, Said traces the ramifications and diverse understandings of the concept of beginning through history. A beginning is a first step in the intentional production of meaning and the production of difference from preexisting traditions. It authorizes subsequent texts -- it both enables them and limits what is acceptable. Drawing on the insights of Vico, Valery, Nietzsche, Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Husserl, and Foucault, Said recognizes the novel as the major attempt in Western literary culture to give beginnings an authorizing function in experience, art, and knowledge. Scholarship should see itself as a beginning -- as a uniting of theory and practice. Said's insistence on a criticism that is humane and socially responsible is what makes Beginnings a book about much more than writing: it is about imagination and action as well as the constraints on freedom and invention that come from human intention and the method of its fulfillment.
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(Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinia...)
Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid.
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(The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab...)
The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab-Israel conflict. Kenneth Stein investigates in detail and without polemics how and why Jews acquired land from Arabs in Palestine during the British Mandate, and he reaches conclusions that are challenging and suprising. Stein contends that Zionists were able to purchase the core of a national territory in Palestine during this period for three reasons: they had the single-mindedness of purpose, as well as the capital, to buy the land; the Arabs, economically impoverished, politically fragmented, and socially atomized, were willing to sell the land; and the British were largely ineffective in regulating land sales and protecting Arab tenants. Neither Arab opposition to land sales nor British attempts to regulate them actually limited land acquisition. There were always more Arab offers to sell land than there were Zionist funds. In fact, many sales were made by Arab politicians who publicly opposed Zionism and even led agitation against land acquisition by Jews. Zionists furthered their own ambitions by skillfully using their understanding of the bureaucracy to write laws and to influence key administrative appointments. Further, they knew how to take advantage of social and economic cleavages within Arab society. Based primarily on archival research, The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 offers an unusually balanced analysis of the social and political history of land sales in Palestine during this critical period. It provides exceptional and essential insight into one of the most troubling conflicts in today's world.
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(The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab...)
The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab-Israel conflict. Kenneth Stein investigates in detail and without polemics how and why Jews acquired land from Arabs in Palestine during the British Mandate, and he reaches conclusions that are challenging and suprising. Stein contends that Zionists were able to purchase the core of a national territory in Palestine during this period for three reasons: they had the single-mindedness of purpose, as well as the capital, to buy the land; the Arabs, economically impoverished, politically fragmented, and socially atomized, were willing to sell the land; and the British were largely ineffective in regulating land sales and protecting Arab tenants. Neither Arab opposition to land sales nor British attempts to regulate them actually limited land acquisition. There were always more Arab offers to sell land than there were Zionist funds. In fact, many sales were made by Arab politicians who publicly opposed Zionism and even led agitation against land acquisition by Jews. Zionists furthered their own ambitions by skillfully using their understanding of the bureaucracy to write laws and to influence key administrative appointments. Further, they knew how to take advantage of social and economic cleavages within Arab society. Based primarily on archival research, The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 offers an unusually balanced analysis of the social and political history of land sales in Palestine during this critical period. It provides exceptional and essential insight into one of the most troubling conflicts in today's world.
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(Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine H...)
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World - Said, Edward W. - Vintage
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(This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new d...)
This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orientalism, Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, for example, and by such influences as Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. He argues, however, that the various methods and schools have had a crippling effect through their tendency to force works of literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring the complex affiliations binding the texts to the world. The critic must maintain a distance both from critical systems and from the dogmas and orthodoxies of the dominant culture, Said contends. He advocates freedom of consciousness and responsiveness to history, to the exigencies of the text, to political, social, and human values, to the heterogeneity of human experience. These characteristics are brilliantly exemplified in his own analyses of individual authors and works. Combining the principles and practice of criticism, the book offers illuminating investigations of a number of writers—Swift, Conrad, Lukács, Renan, and many others—and of concepts such as repetition, originality, worldliness, and the roles of audiences, authors, and speakers. It asks daring questions, investigates problems of urgent significance, and gives a subtle yet powerful new meaning to the enterprise of criticism in modern society.
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(El mundo, el texto y el critico atestigua el vasto espect...)
El mundo, el texto y el critico atestigua el vasto espectro de intereses de su autor y la ejemplar sutileza de sus analisis. Mas de una decada le tomo a Said componer la docena de ensayos y el lucido programa que conforman este volumen, cuyo impacto trascendio largamente el ambito universitario. Eric Auerbach, Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukacs, Michel Foucault y Jacques Derrida son algunas de las autoridades que Edward W. Said convoca para examinar el quehacer critico en la era de la globalizacion y la crisis del paradigma humanista, y con ellas establece un dialogo claro y minucioso que no teme ser polemico. Frente a la ortodoxia implacable de los diferentes fundamentalismos o la tendencia a «sacralizar» las grandes obras literarias, Said invoca la imagen del intelectual que pone en cuestion las verdades consagradas y se entrega, a traves de la lectura atenta e informada por el saber historico, al esclarecimiento de los textos y de las condiciones de su escritura.
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(Said, Edward W. / Gould, Glenn. The Text, the World, the ...)
Said, Edward W. / Gould, Glenn. The Text, the World, the Critic (On Glenn Gould). Midwest Modern Langauage Association, 1975. Oblong-4°. 12 pages. Mechanical reproduction from Midwest Modern language Association, Vol 8, #2, Fall 1975. Inscribed by the author to critic Harry Levin. With Said's additional signature on the address flap of envelope attached.
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(This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new d...)
This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of "Beginnings" and the controversial "Orientalism," Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, for example, and by such influences as Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysi...
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( A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity tha...)
A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's dislocated past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.
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(Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland,...)
Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence. Beginning with a thorough exposé of the fraudulent assertions of Joan Peters concerning the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948, the book then turns to similar instances in Middle East research where the truth about the Palestinians has been systematically suppressed: from the bogus—though still widely believed—explanations of why so many Palestinians fled their homes in 1948, to today’s distorted propaganda about PLO terrorism. The volume also includes sharp critiques of the wide consensus in the USA which supports Israel and its territorial ambitions while maintaining total silence about the competing reality of the Palestinians.
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( Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural stud...)
Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work, noted critic Edward W. Said discusses performers such as Glenn Gould, Arturo Toscanini, and Alfred Brendel and such composers as Beethoven, Wagner, and Strauss.
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(In this series of essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lecture...)
In this series of essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today. It is, he argues, the intellectual's role to represent a message or view not only to, but for, a public, and to do so as an outsider - someone who cannot be co-opted by a government or corporation. Interweaving literature, history and philosophy, Said describes and demonstrates how the intellectual must remain a dissenter, never putting solidarity before criticism, and speak from the margins for both the people and the issues which are routinely forgotten or ignored.
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(Pocos autores han alcanzado la talla moral e intelectual ...)
Pocos autores han alcanzado la talla moral e intelectual del profesor Said, cuya figura crece con el paso del tiempo. Respetado incluso por sus detractores, en este libro (seis magistrales conferencias del ciclo Reith, que inicio, en 1948, Bertrand Russell) se analiza la importancia de la vision etica y la lucha contra la arbitrariedad del poder por parte de los intelectuales en nuestro tiempo. Said parte de la idea clasica del intelectual como francotirador, perturbador del status quo, un desmitifi cador obligado a la soledad del juicio ante el empuje de los medios de comunicacion que moldean la opinion publica mundial. El intelectual, sostiene el profesor Said, debera ser el encargado de descubrir esta manipulacion. Encuadrados dentro de la sociedad de consumo, los intelectualesson vulnerables a la presion del poder y caen, en numerosas ocasiones, en la banalidad y la falta de sentido critico. Frente a la comoda complicidad, la principal mision del intelectual consistira, a ojos de Edward W. Said -un pensador comprometido con su tiempo-, en defender la independencia de criterio. Esta posicion, cuando es real, les llevara a vivir como marginados o, en el peor de loscasos -la propia vivencia de Said-, como exiliados.
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(Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Quest...)
Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and their tortuous relations with the West. In The Politics of Dispossession Said traces his people's struggle for statehood through twenty-five years of exile, from the PLO's bloody 1970 exile from Jordan through the debacle of the Gulf War and the ambiguous 1994 peace accord with Israel. As frank as he is about his personal involvement in that struggle, Said is equally unsparing in his demolition of Arab icons and American shibboleths. Stylish, impassioned, and informed by a magisterial knowledge of history and literature, The Politics of Dispossession is a masterly synthesis of scholarship and polemic that has the power to redefine the debate over the Middle East.
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(In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compel...)
In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compelled us to question our culture's most privileged myths. Now with this impassioned and incisive book, our foremost Palestinian-American intellectual challenges the official version of the Middle East "peace process." "He challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area."-- Washington Post Book World.
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( Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in Septemb...)
Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace. In these essays, most written for Arab and European newspapers, Said uncovers the political mechanism that advertises reconciliation in the Middle East while keeping peace out of the picture. Said argues that the imbalance in power that forces Palestinians and Arab states to accept the concessions of the United States and Israel prohibits real negotiations and promotes the second-class treatment of Palestinians. He documents what has really gone on in the occupied territories since the signing. He reports worsening conditions for the Palestinians critiques Yasir Arafat's self-interested and oppressive leadership, denounces Israel's refusal to recognize Palestine's past, and—in essays new to this edition—addresses the resulting unrest. In this unflinching cry for civic justice and self-determination, Said promotes not a political agenda but a transcendent alternative: the peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews enjoying equal rights and shared citizenship.
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(This insightful collection of essays is a commentary on t...)
This insightful collection of essays is a commentary on the last six years of the Middle East peace process, in which Edward Said has been virtually a lone voice in the West supporting the rights of the Palestinian people. Said questions the efficacy of Arafat's leadership, which has done nothing to stop illegal land expropriation and house demolitions; and regards the Oslo Accords as a false "breakthrough" for the Palestinians, as they include no mention of self-determination or sovereignty, or of an end to the expansion of Jewish settlements. But the author is not without hope: taken together, these essays comprise an eloquent, powerful vision of how peaceful reconciliation between Palestinian and Israeli can be taken forward.
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(The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After by Said, Edw...)
The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After by Said, Edward W. [Vintage, 200...
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( With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic c...)
With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983, reconfirms what no one can doubt--that Said is the most impressive, consequential, and elegant critic of our time--and offers further evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and our culture. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given both form and the force of intimacy to the questions Said has pursued. Taken together, these essays--from the famous to those that will surprise even Said's most assiduous followers--afford rare insight into the formation of a critic and the development of an intellectual vocation. Said's topics are many and diverse, from the movie heroics of Tarzan to the machismo of Ernest Hemingway to the shades of difference that divide Alexandria and Cairo. He offers major reconsiderations of writers and artists such as George Orwell, Giambattista Vico, Georg Lukacs, R. P. Blackmur, E. M. Cioran, Naguib Mahfouz, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Walter Lippman, Samuel Huntington, Antonio Gramsci, and Raymond Williams. Invigorating, edifying, acutely attentive to the vying pressures of personal and historical experience, his book is a source of immeasurable intellectual delight.
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(This collection brings together Edward Said's essays on l...)
This collection brings together Edward Said's essays on literary and cultural topics from over three decades. As the title essay shows, Said's own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given form to the questions he has pursued. These essays give an insight into the formation of the critic and the development of an intellectual vocation. They cover a diverse range of topics, from the heroics of Tarzan to the machismo of Ernest Hemingway. Said offers different angles on writers and artists such as George Orwell, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Raymond Williams. Many of the central debates in the humanities over the last 30 years are addressed.
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(Uno de los títulos capitales en la obra de Said, analiza ...)
Uno de los títulos capitales en la obra de Said, analiza con lucidez y desde dentro el conflicto palestino-israelí.
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This volume foregrounds biblical interpretation within the African history of colonial contact, from North Atlantic slavery to the current era of globalization. It reads of the prolonged struggle for justice and of hybrid identities from multifaceted contexts, where the Bible co-exists with African Indigenous Religions, Islam, and other religions. Showcasing the dynamic and creative approaches of an emerging and thriving community of biblical scholarship from the African continent and African diaspora, the volume critically examines the interaction of biblical texts with African people and their cultures within a postcolonial framework. While employing feminist/womanist, postcolonial, Afrocentric, social engagement, creative writing, reconstruction, and HIV/AIDS perspectives, the authors all engage with empire in their own ways: in specific times, forms, and geography. This volume is an important addition to postcolonial and empires studies in biblical scholarship. The contributors are David Tuesday Adamo, Lynn Darden, H. J. M. (Hans) van Deventer, Musa W. Dube, John D. K. Ekem, Ernest M. Ezeogu, Elelwani B. Farisani, Sylvester A. Johnson, Emmanuel Katongole, Malebogo Kgalemang, Temba L. J. Mafico, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan a Mphahlele), Andrew M. Mbuvi, Sarojini Nadar, Elivered Nasambu-Mulongo, Jeremy Punt, Gerrie Snyman, Lovemore Togarasei, Sam Tshehla, Robert Wafawanaka, Robert Wafula, Gerald West, Alice Y. Yafeh-Deigh, and Gosnell L. Yorke.
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(Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palesti...)
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question by Sai...
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(When the Young Turks came into power, they proclaimed tha...)
When the Young Turks came into power, they proclaimed that they were going to weld the Ottoman Empire into one homogeneous and harmonious whole. But by a piece of brilliant paradoxical reasoning, says Mr. Benson, Germany determined that it was she who was going to do it for them... The process resulted in the first Genocide of the Twentieth Century, the Armenian Genocide, as well as countless massacres and atrocities towards other Ottoman minorities, the Greeks, Arabs, Assyrians, Bulgarians...
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(Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gosp...)
Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel, originally published in 1982 and extensively revised in 1999, was a turning point in Gospel studies, both for the contribution it made to Markan scholarship and for the methodological insights that it advanced. This volume celebrates Mark as Story and offers critique, engagement, and exploration of the new hermeneutical vistas that emerged in the wake of this pioneering study. In these essays, leading international Markan scholars discuss various texts and themes in the Second Gospel, reflect upon the rise of narrative criticism, and offer a glimpse at future trends in Gospels research. The contributors are Christopher W. Skinner; Mark Allan Powell; Elizabeth Struthers Malbon; Stephen D. Moore; Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B.; Thomas E. Boomershine; R. Alan Culpepper; Morna D. Hooker; Kelly R. Iverson; Holly E. Hearon; Robert M. Fowler; and David Rhoads, Joanna Dewey, and Donald Michie.
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Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have transformed the way America cares for its poor. Today, for every dollar spent on cash welfare payments, some twenty dollars are spent on service programs targeted at the working poorjob training, adult education, child care, emergency assistance, mental health care, and other social services. This important book examines our current system and the crucial role that geography plays in the system’s ability to offer help. Drawing on unique survey data from almost 1,500 faith-based and secular service organizations in three cities, Scott W. Allard examines which agencies are most accessible to poor populations and looks at the profound impact of unstable funding on assistance programs. Allard argues that the new system has become less equitable and reliable, and he concludes with practical policy recommendations that address some of the more pressing issues in improving the safety net.
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( Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have tr...)
Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have transformed the way America cares for its poor. Today, for every dollar spent on cash welfare payments, some twenty dollars are spent on service programs targeted at the working poorjob training, adult education, child care, emergency assistance, mental health care, and other social services. This important book examines our current system and the crucial role that geography plays in the system’s ability to offer help. Drawing on unique survey data from almost 1,500 faith-based and secular service organizations in three cities, Scott W. Allard examines which agencies are most accessible to poor populations and looks at the profound impact of unstable funding on assistance programs. Allard argues that the new system has become less equitable and reliable, and he concludes with practical policy recommendations that address some of the more pressing issues in improving the safety net.
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( This visually and intellectually exciting book brings t...)
This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination. Bringing together art history and the social and political history of San Francisco, this vividly detailed study unravels the complex cultural encounter that occurred between the women and men living in Chinatown and the artists who walked its streets, observed its commerce, and visited its nightclubs. Artistic representations of San Francisco's Chinatown include the work of some of the city's most gifted artists, among them the photographers Laura Adams Armer, Arnold Genthe, Dorothea Lange, Eadweard Muybridge, and Carleton Watkins and the painters Edwin Deakin, Yun Gee, Theodore Wores, and the members of the Chinese Revolutionary Artists' Club. Looking at the work of these artists and many others, Anthony Lee shows how their experiences in the district helped encourage, and even structured, some of their most ambitious experiments with brush and lens. In addition to discussing important developments in modern art history, Lee highlights the social and political context behind these striking images. He demonstrates the value of seeing paintings and photographs as cultural documents, and in so doing, opens a fascinating new perspective on San Francisco's Chinatown.
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( This visually and intellectually exciting book brings t...)
This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination. Bringing together art history and the social and political history of San Francisco, this vividly detailed study unravels the complex cultural encounter that occurred between the women and men living in Chinatown and the artists who walked its streets, observed its commerce, and visited its nightclubs. Artistic representations of San Francisco's Chinatown include the work of some of the city's most gifted artists, among them the photographers Laura Adams Armer, Arnold Genthe, Dorothea Lange, Eadweard Muybridge, and Carleton Watkins and the painters Edwin Deakin, Yun Gee, Theodore Wores, and the members of the Chinese Revolutionary Artists' Club. Looking at the work of these artists and many others, Anthony Lee shows how their experiences in the district helped encourage, and even structured, some of their most ambitious experiments with brush and lens. In addition to discussing important developments in modern art history, Lee highlights the social and political context behind these striking images. He demonstrates the value of seeing paintings and photographs as cultural documents, and in so doing, opens a fascinating new perspective on San Francisco's Chinatown.
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Said, Edward W. was born on November 1, 1935 in Jerusalem, Palestine. Son of Wadie A. and Hilda (Musa) Said.
AB, Princeton University, 1957. A.M., Harvard University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1964.
Degree (honorary), University Chicago. Degree (honorary), Bir Zeit University. Degree (honorary), Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Degree (honorary), University Michigan. Degree (honorary), University Edinburgh. Degree (honorary), National University Ireland.
Tutor history and literature Harvard University, 1961-1963. Instructor Columbia University, 1963-1965, assistant professor English, 1965-1967, associate professor, 1968-1970, professor, 1970-1977, Parr professor English and comparative literature, 1977-1989, Old Dominion Foundation professor humanities, 1989—2003. Visiting professor Harvard University, 1974, Johns Hopkins, spring 1979, Yale University, fall 1985.
Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, California, 1975-1976. Christian Gauss lecturer in criticism Princeton University, spring 1977, Thomas Stearns Eliot lecturer University Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, 1985, Messenger lecturer Cornell University, 1986, Little lecturer Princeton University, 1988, Raymond Williams Memorial lecturer, London, 1989, Wilson lecturer Wellesley College, 1991, Amnesty lecturer Oxford University, 1992, Lord Northcliffe lecturer, University College, London, 1993, Reith lecturer British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1993, others. Carpenter professor University Chicago, 1983.
Northrop Frye chair University Toronto, fall 1986.
(Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gosp...)
(This insightful collection of essays is a commentary on t...)
(Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinia...)
(He traces this idea through the late-19th and early-20th ...)
( This visually and intellectually exciting book brings t...)
( This visually and intellectually exciting book brings t...)
( A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern th...)
(A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thou...)
( Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in Septemb...)
( A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity tha...)
(Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Quest...)
(This volume foregrounds biblical interpretation within th...)
( Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural stud...)
(Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland,...)
(When the Young Turks came into power, they proclaimed tha...)
(The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columb...)
(El mundo, el texto y el critico atestigua el vasto espect...)
(In this series of essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lecture...)
(Pocos autores han alcanzado la talla moral e intelectual ...)
(Uno de los títulos capitales en la obra de Said, analiza ...)
(In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compel...)
(This collection brings together Edward Said's essays on l...)
(Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine H...)
( Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have tr...)
( Sweeping changes in welfare programs since 1996 have tr...)
(This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new d...)
(This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new d...)
(Collected journalism by one of the most important cultura...)
(Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palesti...)
(The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab...)
(The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab...)
( With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic c...)
(The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After by Said, Edw...)
(Said, Edward W. / Gould, Glenn. The Text, the World, the ...)
( Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal...)
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Author: Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of autobiography, 1966, Beginnings: Intention and Method, 1975, Orientalism, 1978, The Question of Palestine, 1979, Covering Islam, 1980, The World, The Text and the Critic, 1983, After the Last Sky, 1986, Blaming the Victims, 1988, Musical Elaborations, 1991, Culture and Imperialism, 1993, Representations of the Intellectual, 1994, Politics of Dispossession, 1994, Peace and Its Discontents, 1996, Out of Place, 1999, The End of the Peace Process, 2000, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, 2000. Editor: Literature and Society, 1979, Ghazzah-Arihah: Salam Amriki, 1994, Henry James' Completed Stories 1884-1891, 1999.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Modern Language Association, Association Arab American University Graduates (past vice president), New York Council Foreign Relations, American Comparative Literature Association (René Wellek award 1985), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (executive board since 1989), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Society Literature, American Philosophical Society, Modern Language Association (president 1999).
Married Mariam Cortas, December 15, 1970. Children: Wadie, Najla.