Edward Said
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Edward Wadie Said (Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد, 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist and public intellectual who helped found the critical-theory field of postcolonialism.
Works
(in English unless noted)
- Beginnings: Intention and Method, New York: Basic Books, 1975; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
- Orientalism, New York: Pantheon, 1978; Vintage, 1979.
- L'Orientalisme. L'Orient créé par l'Occident, trans. Catherine Malamoud, Paris: Seuil, 1978; 1995; 2005. (French)
- Orientalism. Conceptiile occidentale despre Orient, trans. Ana Andreescu and Doina Lica, Timişoara: Amarcord, 2001. (Romanian)
- The Question of Palestine, Times Books, 1979; Vintage, 1980; 1992.
- Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World Pantheon, 1981; rev.ed., Vintage, 1997.
- The World, the Text, and the Critic, Harvard University Press, 1983.
- Culture and Imperialism, New York: Knopf, 1993; New York: Vintage, 1994.
- Music at the Limits, Columbia University Press, 2007.
Literature
- Harold Aram Veeser, Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism, Routledge, 2010.