* Edward W. Said (Palestine) - Collected Works and Interviews (33 books)

EDWARD W. SAID (1935 – 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, cultural critic, literary theorist, journalist, political activist, and public intellectual.  As a Professor at Columbia University from 1963 to 2003, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies, and was an outspoken proponent of the political rights of the Palestinian people and the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

Said is best known for his book ORIENTALISM (1978), a foundational text and one of the most influential scholarly books of the 20th century.  In it Said examined Western scholarship of the "Orient," specifically of the Arab Islamic world (though he was an Arab Christian), and argued that early scholarship by Westerners in that region was biased and projected a false and stereotyped vision of "otherness" on the Islamic world that facilitated and supported Western colonial policy.  His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.

As a public intellectual, Said wrote numerous books and articles in his support of Arab causes and Palestinian rights.  He was especially critical of U.S. and Israeli policy in the region, and this led him into numerous, often bitter, polemics with supporters of those two countries.  He was a member of the Palestinian National Council supporting a two-state solution that incorporated the Palestinian right of return, before resigning in 1993 due to his criticism of the Oslo Accords.  Said advocated for the establishment of a Palestinian state to ensure political and humanitarian equality in the Israeli-occupied territories, where Palestinians have witnessed the increased expansion of Israeli settlements.  However, in 1999, he argued that sustainable peace was only possible with one Israeli–Palestinian state.

Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. In his books, as scholarly as they are readable, he challenged conventional critical demarcations between disciplines.  He was also an accomplished pianist and wrote five books about music, including MUSIC AT THE LIMITS (2007) in which he spoke of finding musical reflections of his literary and historical ideas in bold compositions and strong performances.  His autobiography, OUT OF PLACE (1999), reflects the ambivalence he felt over living in both the Western and Eastern traditions.  SONGS OF AN EASTERN HUMANIST (2023) collects all of his never-before-published poems, shot through with Said's capacious intellect and passionate sensibility.


The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format:

== NONFICTION ==

* Acts of Aggression (Seven Stories, 2001) – ePUB + PDF
* Culture and Imperialism (Vintage, 2012) – ePUB + PDF
* Freud and the Non-European (Verso, 2014) – ePUB
* Humanism and Democratic Criticism (Columbia, 2004) – PDF
* Nationalism, Colonialism & Literature (Minnesota, 1990) – ePUB + PDF
* Orientalism [25th Anniversary Edition] (Vintage, 2014) – ePUB + PDF
* Reflections on Exile & Other Essays (Granta, 2013) – ePUB + PDF
* Representations of the Intellectual (Vintage, 2012) – ePUB + PDF
* Selected Works, 1966-2006, 2/e [ed. Bayoumi & Rubin] (Vintage, 2019) – ePUB

== ON PALESTINE & THE MIDDLE EAST ==

* After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives (Columbia, 1999) – PDF
* Covering Islam [revised edition] (Vintage, 1997) – ePUB
* End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After (Pantheon, 2000) – ePUB + PDF
* From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays (Vintage, 2007) – ePUB
* Peace and Its Discontents (Vintage, 2012) – ePUB
* The Politics of Dispossession (Pantheon, 1994) – ePUB + PDF
* The Question of Palestine (Vintage, 2015) – ePUB + PDF

== LITERARY CRITICISM ==

* Beginnings: Intention and Method (Columbia, 1985) – PDF
* Joseph Conrad & the Fiction of Autobiography (Columbia, 2008) – ePUB
* The World, the Text, and the Critic (Harvard, 1983) – PDF

== ON MUSIC ==

* Music at the Limits (Columbia, 2008) – ePUB + PDF
* Musical Elaborations (Columbia, 1991) – PDF
* On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain (2008) – ePUB
* Parallels & Paradoxes: Explorations in Music & Society (2008) – ePUB
* Said on Opera [ed. Capitain] (Columbia, 2024) – ePUB

== POETRY ==

* Songs of an Eastern Humanist: Collected Poems [ed. Brennan] (Eris, 2023) – ePUB

== MEMOIR ==

* Out of Place: A Memoir (Vintage, 2012) – ePUB + PDF

== INTERVIEWS ==

* Conversations with Edward Said [Tariq Ali] (Seagull Books, 2005) – PDF
* Culture and Resistance (South End, 2003) – PDF
* Interviews with Edward Said [ed. Singh] (Mississippi, 2004) – PDF
* The Pen and the Sword [ed. Barsamian] (Common Courage, 1994) – PDF
* Power, Politics, and Culture [ed. Viswanathan] (Bloomsbury, 2014) – ePUB

== EDITOR ==

* Blaming the Victims (Verso, 2001) – ePUB
* Literature and Society (Johns Hopkins, 1980) – PDF


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