Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s mostcompelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array oftopics with his many publications. But no single book hasencompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite likePower, Politics, and Culture, a collection of interviewsfrom the last three decades. In these twenty-eight interviews, Said addresses everything fromPalestine to Pavarotti, from his nomadic upbringing under colonialrule to his politically active and often controversial adulthood,and reflects on Austen, Beckett, Conrad, Naipaul, Mahfouz, andRushdie, as well as on fellow critics Bloom, Derrida, and Foucault.The passion Said feels for literature, music, history, and politicsis powerfully conveyed in this indispensable complement to hisprolific life's work.
【作者简介】
Edward W. Said is University Professor of English andComparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author ofmore than twenty books, including Orientalism (which wasnominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), CoveringIslam, Peace and Its Discontents, The Politics ofDispossession, Culture and Imperialism,Representations of the Intellectual, The Question ofPalestine, Out of Place, The Edward Said Reader,and The End of the Peace Process.
Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities atColumbia University. She is the author of Masks of Conquest:Literary Study and British Rule in India and Outside theFold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief.
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