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Preface: Ultimate Coherence xi Introduction: The Word, the Text and Said xv Gareth Griffiths I. Hegemony and the Role of the Intellectual 1 Representing the Non-Canonical, Knowledge 3 and Power: Edward Said and the 'Mainstreaming' of Postcolonial Literatures Valérie Orlando Said's Impact on Arab Intellectuals: Reverberations 15 of Said's Thought in the Current Debates over Islam, and US-Muslim/Arab Relations Laura Rice – Karim Hamdy The ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading 25 Said in Hebrew Ella Shohat Said’s Foucault, or the Desire for Analogy 49 John Ochoa Textuality, Theory, (In)fusionism: Reinventing 57 Said's “Materiality” & “Amateurism” Ranjan Gosh Edward Said's “Counterpoint” 67 Kiyoko Magome Resisting the Hegemonic Function of Culture: 75 Edward Said and the Responsibility of the Intellectual Matthew Abraham II. Orientalism and its Discontents 83 Historiography as a Means for Power: “Otherization” 85 and Imperialism Through the Writings of Edward Said Rasha I. Ramzy What Would Said Say? Reflections on Tradition, 95 Imperialism, and Globalism Sura P. Rath “Jewelinthecrown.co.uk”: Orientalism's Strange 111 Persistence in Diasporic South Asian Literature in Britain Steven Barfield Latin American Orientalism: from Margin 121 to Margin Hernán G. H. Taboada The Legacy and the Future of Orientalism 129 Lidan Lin Occidentalism: Edward Said’s Legacy for the 145 Occidentalist Imaginary and its Critique Tamara Silvia Wagner III. Narrating the Postcolonial 155 “Nation and Narration”: The English Novel and 157 Englishness Sarah Fulford Fish(ing) for Colonial Counter-Narratives in 167 the Short Fiction of Paul Bowles Robert Ficociello Subject and Citizen: The Ambivalent Identity 175 in postcolonial Francophone Africa. Gilbert Doho Was Edward Said Right in Depicting Albert Camus 187 as an Imperialist Writer? Nabil Boudraa IV. The Last Sky over Broummana 201 Edward Said, John Berger, Jean Mohr: Seeking an 203 Other Optic John Hawley After the Last Sky: A Liminal Space 211 Yifen Beus Other Places: Said's Map of the Middle East. 221 Salah Hassan Books by Edward Said 229 Contributors 233