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There's a new book out about Edward Said called The Charisma of Criticism. You can find a review here, by way of Crooked Timber. Said more or less invented postcolonial studies with his book Orientalism. The review (and the book, apparently) don't get much into his theories. There is much in it, though, about how being a public figure, as Said was with his Palestinian advocacy, can affect your academic work. And of course he became the yardstick against which the upcoming Young Guns in postcolonial studies measured themselves:
"And so, two or three generations of young radical intellectuals have now had the pleasure of discovering that they are ever so much more radical than Edward Said. It must be very pleasant for them, but none of them has yet amounted to a replacement."
"And so, two or three generations of young radical intellectuals have now had the pleasure of discovering that they are ever so much more radical than Edward Said. It must be very pleasant for them, but none of them has yet amounted to a replacement."