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Few recent books on the origins of the Mideast crisis have evoked as much interest as Joan Peters's study, From Time Immemorial (Harper and Row, 1984). 1 Virtually every important journal of opinion printed one or more reviews within weeks of the book's release. Harper and Row reported that scarcely eight months after publication From Time Immemorial went into its seventh printing. Author Joan Peters reportedly had two hundred and fifty speaking engagements scheduled during 1985. Reviewers have differed in their overall assessment of the book. But they have almost uniformly hailed the research and the demographic findings that are at the core of Peters's study. Jehuda Reinharz, the distinguished biographer of Chaim Weizmann, acclaimed Peters's ‘valuable synthesis’ and ‘convincing … new analysis’ in the Library Journal (15 April 1984). Walter Reich, in his Atlantic review (July 1984), wrote that if Peters's ‘arguments, especially the demographic one, are confirmed, they will certainly change [our] assumptions about the Arab–Israeli conflict’. Ronald Sanders, author of a monumental study of the Balfour Declaration, likewise opined in The New Republic (23 April 1984) that Peters's demographics ‘could change the entire Arab–Jewish polemic over Palestine’. In Commentary (July 1984), Daniel Pipes threw all caution to the…
Table of Contents
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Volume I
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Intellectuals and Critics: Positions and Polemics
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1. Interview with Edward W. Said
Edward Said
1976
Diacritics
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2. Politics, the Profession, and the Critic
Catherine Gallagher
1985
Diacritics
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3. Intellectuals at War: Michel Foucault and the Analytics of Power
Paul Bové
1986
Intellectuals in Power
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4. The Critic as Dis/Placed Intelligence: The Case of Edward Said
Mustapha Marrouchi
1991
Diacritics
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5. Orientalism and after: Ambivalence and Metropolitan Location in the Work of Edward Said
Aijaz Ahmed
1992
In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures
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6. The National Question: Said, Ahmad, Jameson
Michael Sprinker
1993
Public Culture
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7. News from Nowhere: The Discontents of Aijaz Ahmad
Marjorie Levinson
1993
Public Culture
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8. An Interview with Edward W. Said
Edward Said | Joseph Buttigieg | Paul Bové
1993
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9. The East is a Career: Edward Said
Bruce Robbins
1993
Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture
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10. The Palestinian Intellectual and the Liberation of the Academy
Barbara Harlow
1992
Edward Said: A Critical Reader
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Abdul JanMohamed
1992
Edward Said: A Critical Reader
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12. The Intifada of the Intellectuals: An Ecumenical Perspective on the Walzer–Said Exchange
Mark Walhout
1994
Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice
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13. Edward W. Said and the American Public Sphere: Speaking Truth to Power
Rashid Khalidi
1998
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14. Conversation with Edward Said
Edward Said | Bill Ashcroft
1996
New Literatures Review
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15. Edward Said, Late Style and the Aesthetic of Exile
Tim Lawrence
1997
Third Text
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16. ‘What Truth? For Whom and Where?’
Martin Hollis
1997
Intellectuals in Politics
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17. Nothing in the Post?–Said and the Problem of Post-Colonial Intellectuals
Patrick Williams
2000
Cultural and Postcolonial Studies: Essays in Honour of Edward Said
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Versions of Orientalism
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18. Orientalism and the Study of Japan
Richard Minear
1980
Journal of Asian Studies
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19. Orientalism and its Problems
Dennis Porter
1983
The Politics of Theory
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Volume II
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Versions of Orientalism
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20. The Challenge of Orientalism
Lata Mani | Ruth Frankenberg
1985
Economy and Society
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21. On Orientalism
James Clifford
1988
The Predicament of Culture
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22. The Prisonhouse of Orientalism
Zakia Pathak | Saswati Sengupta | Sharmila Purkayastha
1991
Textual Practice
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23. After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism, and Politics in the Third World
Rosalind O'Hanlon | David Washbrooky
1992
Comparative Studies in Society and History
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24. Techno-Orientalism: Futures, Foreigners and Phobias
David Morley | Kevin Robins
1992
New Formations
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25. Under the Sign of Orientalism: The West vs. Islam
Mahmut Mutman
1992
Cultural Critique
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Diana Knight
1993
New Literary History
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27. The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre
Joyce Zonana
1993
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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Leigh Dale | Helen Gilbert
1993
Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature
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29. Acting Out Orientalism: Sapphic Theatricality in Turn-of-the-Century Paris
Emily Apter
1994
L'Esprit Créateur
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30. Vacation Cruises; or, the Homoerotics of Orientalism
Joseph Boone
1995
PMLA
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31. Orientalism Now
Gyan Prakash
1995
History and Theory
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32. Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism
Arif Dirlik
1996
History and Theory
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33. Feminism, Imperialism and Orientalism: The Challenge of the ‘Indian Woman’
Joanna Liddle | Shirin Rai
1998
Women's History Review
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34. Orientalism: From Unveiling to Hyperveiling
Neil Macmaster | Toni Lewis
1998
Journal of European Studies
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35. The Illusion of a Future: Orientalism as Traveling Theory
Timothy Brennan
2000
Critical Inquiry
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Cultural Forms, Disciplinary Boundaries
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36. Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories: Edward Said's Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism
Benita Parry
1992
Edward Said: A Critical Reader
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37. Presence and Representation: The Other and Anthropological Writing
Johannes Fabian
1990
Critical Inquiry
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38. Orientalism and the Ethnographer: Said, Herodotus, and the Discourse of Alterity
Catherine Martin
1990
Criticism
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39. The Mightier Pen: The Double Standards of inside-Out Colonialism
Ernest Gellner
1994
Encounters with Nationalism
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Volume III
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Cultural Forms, Disciplinary Boundaries
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40. The Ethics of Mansfield Park: MacIntyre, Said, and Social Context
Allen Dunn
1995
Soundings
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41. Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism
Susan Fraiman
1995
Critical Inquiry
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42. Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism: A Symposium
Bruce Robbins | Mary Pratt | Jonathan Arac | R. Radhakrishnan | Edward Said
1985
Social Text
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Lisa Lowe
1995
Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature
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44. Representing Empire: Class, Culture, and the Popular Theatre in the Nineteenth Century
Michael Hays
1995
Theatre journal
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45. Narrating Imperialism: Nostromo's Dystopia
Benita Parry
1997
Cultural Readings of Imperialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History
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Elleke Boehmer
2000
Cultural and Postcolonial Studies: Essays in Honour of Edward Said
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47. Edward Said and the Historians
John MacKenzie
1994
Nineteenth Century Contexts
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Edmund Burke
1998
Theory and Society
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Christine Holmlund
1991
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
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50. The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine
Marina Heung
1997
Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film
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51. Language and War: Orientalism in the ‘Mother of all Battles’
Bob Hodge
1992
SPAN
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Terry Cochran
1998
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Henry Gates
1998
Raritan
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54. The Sublime Lyrical Abstractions of Edward W. Said
Jim Merod
1998
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55. Orientalism and Musical Style
Derek Scott
1998
The Musical Quarterly
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56. In Responses Begins Responsibility: Music and Emotion
Lindsay Waters
1998
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57. Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories
Fernando Coronil
1996
Cultural Anthropology
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58. Multiculturalism, Geography, Postcolonial Theory
John Noyes
2000
The Paths of Multiculturalism: Travel Writings and Postcolonialism
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Theory and Politics
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59. Criticism as Cultural Politics
Hayden White
1976
Diacritics
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60. Scriptive Fate/Scriptive Hope
Joseph Riddel
1976
Diacritics
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61. Difference, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism
Homi Bhabha
1983
The Politics of Theory
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Volume IV
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Theory and Politics
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62. Criticism Worldly and Otherworldly: Edward W. Said and The Cult of Theory
Daniel O'Hara
1984
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63. Theorizing Opposition: Aristotle, Greimas, Jameson, and Said
Robert Davis
1987
L'Esprit Créateur
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64. The Genealogy of Justice and the Justice of Genealogy: Chomsky and Said vs. Foucault and Bové
Harold Weiss
1989
Philosophy Today
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65. Play and Cultural Differences
Paul Armstrong
1991
Kenyan Review
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66. Hope and Reconciliation: A Review of Edward W. Said
Paul Bové
1993
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67. Translating Theories: Edward Said on Orientalism, Imperialism and Alterity
Michael Dutton | Peter Williams
1993
Southern Humanities Review
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68. Third Worldist Relativism: A New Form of Imperialism
Ray Kiely
1995
Journal of Contemporary Asia
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69. Edward W. Said
Asha Varadharajan
1995
Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno, Said and Spivak
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70. The Politics of Nonidentity: Adorno, Postmodernism–and Edward Said
Fred Dallmayr
1997
Political Theory
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71. Culture and Colonization: The Imperial Imperatives of the Centered Circle
William Spanos
1996
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72. Postcolonial Theory in the Literature Classroom: Contrapuntal Readings
Michael Singh | James Greenlaw
1998
Theory into Practice
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73. Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture
Aamir Mufti
1998
Critical Inquiry
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74. Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said
Anthony Alessandrini
2000
A Companion to Postcolonial Studies
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75. Palestine: Betrayal of History
Edward Said | David Barsamian
1994
The Pen and the Sword
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Norman Finkelstein
1988
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
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77. Broadcasts
Christopher Hitchens
1988
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
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78. White Skin, Black Masks: Jews and Jewishness in the Writings of George Eliot and Frantz Fanon
Bryan Cheyette
1997
Cultural Readings of Imperialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History
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79. Antinomies of Exile: Said at the Frontiers of National Narrations
Ella Shohat
1992
Edward Said: A Critical Reader
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80. A Question of Survival: Nations and Psychic States
Homi Bhabha
1991
Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory
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