Afterword
1. Martin Bernal, Black Athena (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, Volume I, 1987; Volume II, 1991); Eric J. Hobsbawm and Terence Rangers, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
2. O’Hanlon and Washbrook, “After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism, and Politics in the Third World;” Prakash, “Can the Subaltern Ride? A Reply to O’Hanlon and Washbrook,” both in Comparative Studies in Society and History, IV, 9 (January 1992), 141–184.
3. In one particularly telling instance, Lewis’s habits of tendentious generalization do seem to have gotten him in legal trouble. According to Libération (March 1, 1994) and the Guardian (March 8, 1994), Lewis now faces both criminal and civil suits brought against him in France by Armenian and human rights organizations. He is being charged under the same statute that makes it a crime in France to deny that the Nazi Holocaust took place; the charge against him is denying (in French newspapers) that a genocide of Armenians took place under the Ottoman empire.
4. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
5. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992.
6. “The Clash of Civilizations,” Foreign Affairs 71, 3 (Summer 1993), 22–49.
7. “Notes on the ‘Post-Colonial’,” Social Text, 31/32 (1992), 106.
8. Magdoff, “Globalisation–To What End?,” Socialist Register 1992: New World Order?, ed. Ralph Milliband and Leo Panitch (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1992), 1–32.
9. Miyoshi, “A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Trans-nationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State,” Critical Inquiry, 19, 4 (Summer 1993), 726–51; Dirlik, “The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism,” Critical Inquiry, 20, 2 (Winter 1994), 328–56.
10. Ireland’s Field Day (London: Hutchinson, 1985), pp. vii–viii.
11. Alcalay (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993); Gilroy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993); Ferguson (London: Routledge, 1992).
Edward W. Said was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was the author of many books, including The Question of Palestine, Culture and Imperialism, and a memoir, Out of Place. He died in 2003.
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