The contributors to this volume - many among the foremost Edward Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic, his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers and his involvement with major movements of his time (such as music, feminism, new humanism, and Marxism).

Foreword Benita Parry. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Section A 1. "A Roomy Place Full of Possibility": Said’s Orientalism and the Literary Nicholas Harrison 2. Edward Said and Roland Barthes: Criticism versus Essayism. Or: Roads and Meetings Missed Andy Stafford 3. Derrida and Said: Ships that Pass in the Night Caroline Rooney 4. Said .. Bloom …. Vico Graham Allen 5. The Materiality and Ideality of Text: Said and Ricoeur Karl Simms. Section B 6. "The Southern Question" and Said’s Geographical Critical Consciousness. Shaobo Xie 7. Fellow Travellers and Homeless Souls: Said’s Critical Marxism Ross Abbinnett 8. Edward Said and the Interplay of Music, History, and Ideology Derek B. Scott 9. Edward Said and (the Postcolonial Occlusion of) Gender Elleke Boehmer 10. Reading Orientalism in Istanbul: Edward Said and Orhan Pamuk Kate Teltscher 11. On Late Style: Edward Said’s Humanism Pal Ahluwalia. Section C 12. Autobiography and Exile: Edward Said’s Out of Place Linda Anderson 13. Edward Said, American International Policy and War on Terror Taieb Belghazi 14. Representations of the Intellectual: the Historian as ‘Outsider’ Ranjan Ghosh. Contributors. Index.