Power, Politics, and Culture by Edward W. Said ISBN 13: 9781400030668

Edward W. Said is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Orientalism (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), Covering Islam , Peace and Its Discontents , The Politics of Dispossession , Culture and Imperialism , Representations of the Intellectual , The Question of Palestine , Out of Place , The Edward Said Reader , and The End of the Peace Process . Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India and O utside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief .