TY - BOOK AU - Pannian,Prasad TI - Edward Said and the question of subjectivity SN - 978-1-137-54864-1 U1 - 801.95092 23E PY - 2016/// CY - Houndmills PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Said, Edward W. / Criticism and interpretation KW - Said, Edward W. / Political and social views KW - Subjectivity KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory KW - PHILOSOPHY / Political N1 - Bibliogr. p. 183-193; Machine generated contents note: Foreword / H. Aram Veeser -- Introduction: Edward Said and the Politics of Subjectivity -- Orient, Occident, and the Constitution of Subjectivity -- The Subject in Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories -- Politics of Exile, Act of Memory, and Recuperation of the Subject -- Intellectuals as Subjects of Action in the Age of New Humanism -- A Shift in Intellectual Trajectory: The Marxist Connection -- Conclusion: Towards a Saidian Paradigm N2 - "Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity explores the articulated and implicated notions of subjectivity in the writings of Edward Said, one of the forthright public intellectuals of our times. The work further analyses the shift in his intellectual trajectory towards a new humanism and dwells on his interface with certain western Marxist thinkers"-- ER -