Edward Said

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)

by Said

• Beginnings: Intention and Method, New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1975; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
• Orientalism, New York: Pantheon Books, 1978; Vintage Books, 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 Books, 1980; 1992.
• Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World Pantheon Book, 1981; revised edition, Vintage Books, 1997.
• The World, the Text, and the Critic, Harvard University Press, 1983.
• Music at the Limits, Columbia University Press, 2007.

on Said

• Harold Aram Veeser, Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism, Routledge, 2010. Log

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said