Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

[wild_irises]

Not precisely a book by a PoC, since it is a book of essays, and some of them (by no means the majority) are by apparently-white people. Nonetheless, very relevant to this community.

I picked up Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation, edited by Adel Iskandar and Hakem Rustom, in a free box in my neighborhood. This is way outside

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[wildestranger]

Thank you for the recommendation - that sounds fascinating, and I now want to read all of it (maybe not the metaphysics, though :)). I've also only read Orientalism, and I had a vague idea of Said's more recent thoughts and controversies, but your exposition of this book has made me realise how much more there is, and how interesting and relevant it all is. Even apart from Said, it seems like this book would be a useful overview of recent scholarly debate on the Middle East, and worth reading just for that.