Edward Said and the work of the critic : speaking truth to power / Paul A. Bové, editor.

"Boundary 2 book."

All but three of the essays were originally published in Boundary 2, summer 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-312) and index.

Introduction / Paul A. Bové -- Edward Said talks to Jacqueline Rose / Jacqueline Rose -- The panic of the visual : a conversation with Edward W. Said / W. J. T. Mitchell -- Race before racism : the disappearance of the American / Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak -- Criticism between opposition and counterpoint / Jonathan Arac -- The matter of language / Terry Cochran -- In responses begins responsibility : music and emotion / Lindsay Waters -- The sublime lyrical abstractions of Edward W. Said / Jim Merod -- Uses of aesthetics : after orientalism / Kojin Karatani -- Edward W. Said and the American public sphere : speaking truth to power / Rashid I. Khalidi -- Sappers in the stacks : colonial archives, land mines, and truth commissions / Barbara Harlow -- Counternarratives, recoveries, refusals / Mustapha Marrouchi -- Auerbach in Istanbul : Edward Said, secular criticism, and the question of minority culture / Aamir R. Mufti -- Exoticism and orientalism in music : problems for the worldly critic / Ralph P. Locke.