1968-2021 Edward W. Said Collection of 43 Essays, Reviews, Letters, Commentary

Description: This is a collection of 43 Items (1968-2021) by and about the late distinguished Palestinian/American writer, musician, literary critic, teacher and public intellectual, Edward W. Said. All items are complete issues and in very good condition. They include: The Partisan Review for Fall 1968. Yale teacher Peter Brooks offers an essay (among other works reviewed) on Said's Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography. The Times Literary Supplement (London) for 6 February 1976. Said opens this number of the weekly with an extended review of Bela Kiralyfalvi's The Aesthetics of Gyorgi Lukacs. The Times Literary Supplement for 20 August 1976. The able British literary critic and teacher Tony Tanner reviews Said's Beginnings. The Times Literary Supplement for 10 December 1976. Hard to find issue. Said pens a review of M.M. Badawi's A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry. The South Carolina Review for Spring 1979. William E. Cain reviews (5 pages) Said's Orientalism. The Yale Review for Summer 1979. Headed "One World, Divisible," Thomas M. Greene reviews Said's Orientalism. The Times Literary Supplement for 12 October 1984. Said reviews Benita Parry's Conrad and Imperialism and Cedric Watts' The Deceptive Text: An Introduction to Covert Plots. Salmagundi (Skidmore College) for Spring/Summer 1986. Special "Intellectuals" Number. Said contributes three separate works to this number: "Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World" (37 pages); "The Post Colonial Intellectual: A Discussion" (16 pages with Conor Cruise O'Brien & John Lukacs); and, "Orwell's Legacy: A Discussion" (8 pages with John Lukacs & Gerald Graff). The Times Literary Supplement for 11-17 March 1988. Irish scholar and student of Islamic Studies Malise Ruthven opens this number reviewing seven new works related to Zionism and Palestine, including the Edward Said/Christopher Hitchen's edited Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question. The Times Literary Supplement for 29 November 1991.Malcolm Bowie reviews Said's Musical Elaborations. The Times Literary Supplement for 19 June 1992. Said pens a review of The Eye of the Sun, the first novel by Egyptian writer Ahdef Soueif. It's headed "The Anglo-Arab Encounter." The Times Literary Supplement for 19 February 1993. Ernest Gellner's (1925-1995) "The Bogey of Orientalism" found its way to the colorful cover of this number and he opens it with an extended review of Said's Culture and Imperialism, an essay that will stir sometimes bitter and personal controversy in the weekly's "Letters" page for the next five months .The essay here is headed "The Mightier Pen?: Edward Said and the Double Standards of Inside-out Colonialism." And see below. The Times Literary Supplement for 26 February 1993. Edward Ullendorff (1920-2011) takes the "Letters" page stand on the topic of Said and "Culture and Imperialism." The Times Literary Supplement for 19 March 1993. Edward Said and David Davies dwell upon what they find to be an endless list of Ernest Gellner's ill-informed pronouncements above on the topic of "Culture and Imperialism" in letters to the weekly. The Times Literary Supplement for 2 April 1993. More "Culture and Imperialism" letters here from Eqbal Ahmad, and another by Jonathan Benthall, who believes that Said should apologize to Gellnor for calling him an anti-Muslim. The Times Literary Supplement for 9 April 1993. Ernest Gellnor submits a long letter in defense of his review and attacks by Said and Eqbal Ahmad. The Times Literary Supplement for 4 June 1993. Edward Said pens an extended letter in response to "Rumpelstiltskin" Gellnor, above. The Times Literary Supplement for 11 June 1993. Ernest Gellnor responds to Said's letter of 4 June. Raritan (Rutgers) for Winter 1993. Said contributes an informed 25 page essay "Nationalism, Human Rights and Interpretation." The Times Literary Supplement for 3 February 1995. Said's "Orientalism Revisited" is a cover feature and opening narrative of this number. It provides an advanced longer excerpt (3 full oversize pages) from Said's still unpublished revised edition of his Orientalism. Here first printed. The Times Literary Supplement for 1 December 1995. Said contributes a full oversize page review of Nadine Gordimer's Writing and Being. The Times Literary Supplement for 16 February 1996. Charles Glass (noted on the cover as "Edward's Said's Palestine") pens a full (oversize) page "Commentary" feature of the weekly headed "A Passionate Reading: Edward Said's 'Magnanimous Indignations.'" The Times Literary Supplement for 9 August 1996. Said reviews Jacqueline Rose's States of Fantasy (Oxford). It's headed "Fantasy's Role in the Making of Nations." The Times Literary Supplement for 5 December 1997. Said contributes a column to the "International Books of the Year" feature number of the weekly in enthusiastic praise for new works by John Banville and Philip Roth. The New Criterion for January 1999. Keith Windschuttle offers an article (8 pages) headed "Edward Said's 'Orientalism' Revisited." This on the revised edition of Said's work. Granta: The Magazine of New Writing (London) for Autumn 1999. Said contributes a 20 page advance excerpt, here first printed, from his still unpublished memoir, Out of Place. The New Left Review (London) for July/August 2000. Michael Gilsenan contributes a long (7 full pages) essay in review of Said's Out of Place: A Memoir. It's headed "The Education of Edward Said." The New Left Review for November/December 2000. Said contributes a 9 page essay to the notable bi-monthly, "America's Last Taboo." A prescient essay on the power of the Zionist Lobby in American public life. The New Left Review for September/October 2001. Said contributes an essay headed "The Deserter: A People in Need of Leadership" (time for Yasser Arafat to go). The London Review of Books for 13 December 2001. Said contributes a long tribute on the passing of his friend, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod headed "My Guru." The editor notes: "Edward Said Writes about the Death of a Palestinian Intellectual." The Times Literary Supplement for 14 December 2001. Robert Irwin reviews Said's Reflections On Exile and other Literary and Cultural Essays and the Moustafa Bayoumi & Andrew Rubin edited The Edward Said Reader. The Times Literary Supplement for 20 June 2003. Appearing here just three months before Said's passing, Richard Sennett contributes a longer essay in review of John Tusa's On Creativity and of the Ara Guzelimian edited Daniel Barenboim and Edward W. Said Parallels and Paradoxes: Music in Society, another just published volume of interest. The Times Literary Supplement for 3 October 2003. Cultural historian Graham Pechey pens a letter (1/2 page) headed "[Erich] Auerbach, [Georg] Lukacs and Edward Said" (taking note of Said's notable Clark lectures). The Times Literary Supplement for 19 May 2006. Christophee De Bellaigue reviews (see photo #12) Robert Irwin's new volume, three years after Said's passing, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies. Best to go to GOOGLE and take a look at what all the reviewers have had to say about this continuing attack on Said by the now late Robert Irwin. De Bellaigue pretty much gives up and ends by urging readers to delve into both Said's revised Orientalism and Irwin's book. . The Times Literary Supplement for 29 December 2006. Gordon McMullan reviews Said's On Late Style. The Times Literary Supplement for 9 May 2008. Cover feature "Edward Said's Legacy." This outstanding number of the weekly offers two rather explosive essays on Said. Robert Irwin opens the issue with a longer review of Daniel Martin Varisco's Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid," and of Ibn Warraq's Defending the West: A Critique of Said's Orientalism. In addition, later in this issue, Kenneth M. Newton contributes two full oversize pages of featured "Commentary" headed "Second Sight: Is Edward Said Right about [George Eliot's] Daniel Deronda?" The Times Literary Supplement for 16 May 2008. Three letters headed "In Defense of Edward Said" are highlighted in this number following the attacks on Said by Robert Irwin and Kenneth Newton. See above. . The Times Literary Supplement for 23 May 2008. Robert Irwin unconvincingly defends himself against the Said letter writers above. It's headed, simply, "Edward Said." The Times Literary Supplement for 30 May 2008. More letters here on the Said/Irwin controversy, again highlighted "In Defense of Edward Said" include one from Said's wife, Mariam C. Said, defending her late husband's Arabic language abilities. The Times Literary Supplement for 13 June 2008. Yet another letter from Robert Irwin following Miriam Said's letter above and claiming more "lies" by Said in his Orientalism. This seems to have ended this episode for Irwin, at least for the time being. The Times Literary Supplement for 25 July 2008. David Matthews contributes an essay in review of Said's Music at the Limits, with a foreword by Said's friend [conductor] Daniel Barenboim. The Times Literary Supplement for 30 April 2021. A letter from Robert Irwin is highlighted in the weekly headed "Said and Orientalism" in defense of what he considers to be an "ad hominem" attack on his scholarship by Timothy Brennan in his just published biography of Said. And see below. The London Review of Books for 6 May 2021. Adam Schatz pens a 3 & 1/2 full oversize page review of Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said. It's headed "Palestinianism."

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