Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity (eBook)

Pannian Prasad (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XII, 205 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-54359-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Contributing to Edward Said's legacy as a great thinker of the twentieth-century, Prasad Pannian uniquely argues that subjectivity was a pervasive theme to Said's body of work. Showing Said as a champion of humanism, this book combines political and literary theory to delve into Said's views on topics ranging from the role of intellectuals to Marxism.

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Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity explores the notion of subjectivity implicated in and articulated by Said in his writings. Analyzing several of his major works, Pannian argues that there is a shift in Said's intellectual trajectory that takes place after the composition of Orientalism. In so doing, Said forthrightly attempts to retrieve a theoretical and political humanism, as Pannian identifies, despite the difficult and sanguinary aspects of its past. He elaborates upon Said's understanding that only after recognising the structures of violence and coming to discern strategies of interpellation, may the individual subject effectively resist them. Pannian also explores Said's ideas on exilic subjectivity, the role of intellectuals, acts of memory, critical secularism, affiliation and solidarity before dwelling on his interface with Marxist thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams. This engagement marks Said's own subject formation, and shapes his self-reflexive mode of knowledge production.

Autor

Prasad Pannian is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Central University of Kerala, India. He has won the Edward Said Fellowship (2018-19) instituted by the Heyman Centre for Humanities, Columbia University, USA.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Dedication 6
Table of Contents 8
Foreword 10
Acknowledgments 12
Introduction Edward Said and the Politics of Subjectivity 14
1 Orient, Occident, and the Constitution of Subjectivity 23
2 The Subject in Overlapping Territories andIntertwined Histories 52
3 Politics of Exile, Act of Memory, and Recuperation ofthe Subject 78
4 Intellectuals as Subjects of Action in the Age ofNew Humanism 104
5 A Shift in Intellectual Trajectory: The Marxist Connection 137
Conclusion Toward a Saidian Paradigm 171
Notes 177
Works Cited 192
Index 203

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 205 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: argue • Constitution • Corpus • Edward Said • exile • History of Literature • Literary Theory • Literature • Marx • Marxism • Orient • Philosophy • Politics • Subject • World literature
• ISBN-10: 1-137-54359-0 / 1137543590
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-54359-2 / 9781137543592