Said Edward. Power, Politics, and Culture

New York: Vintage, 2002. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 1400030668; ISBN13: 978-1400030668. — Edited and with an Introduction by Gauri Viswanathan.Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture, a collection of interviews from the last three decades. In these twenty-eight interviews, Said addresses everything from Palestine to Pavarotti, from his nomadic upbringing under colonial rule to his politically active and often controversial adulthood, and reflects on Austen, Beckett, Conrad, Naipaul, Mahfouz, and Rushdie, as well as on fellow critics Bloom, Derrida, and Foucault. The passion Said feels for literature, music, history, and politics is powerfully conveyed in this indispensable complement to his prolific life's work.ForewordPerformance and criticismBeginnings
In the shadow of the West
Overlapping territories: the world, the text, and the critic
Literary theory at the crossroads of public life
Criticism, culture, and performance
Criticism and the art of politics
Wild orchids and trotsky
Culture and imperialism
Orientalism and after
Edward Said: between two cultures
Peoples’ rights and literature
Language, history, and the production of knowledge
I've always learnt during the classScholarship and activismCan an Arab and a Jewish state coexist?
Scholars, media, and the Middle East
An exile’s exile
American intellectuals and Middle East politics
The need for self-appraisal
A formula for more Hussein
Palestinian voices in the U.S.
The intellectuals and the war
What people in the U.S. know about islam is a stupid cliché
Europe and its others: an Arab perspective
Symbols versus substance: a year after the declaration of principles
The road less traveled
Returning to ourselves
A state, yes, but not just for Palestinians
Orientalism, Arab intellectuals, marxism, and myth in Palestinian history
My right of returnAcknowledgements
Also by Edward W. Said